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There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.

— Vikram Patel

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✓Similar Perspectives

Depression is a physical illness.

— Terry Bradshaw

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

— Adam Ant

Depression is a horrible, potentially life-threatening illness - but the lives it threatens are almost always those of the people who suffer from it.

— Matt Haig

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

— James Hillman

Being diagnosed with diabetes can be a very scary thing, and it can easily make your life stand still for a moment.

— Charlie Kimball

Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.

— Adam Ant

That is the real problem of depression - a condition which will affect an estimated one in five of the population at some point in their lives. It is completely unimaginable until you have been through it.

— Giles Andreae

Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion.

— Tony Campolo

Manic depressive is a disease.

— Debbie Reynolds

✗Opposing Perspectives

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

— Thomas Willis