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SAMHSA’s National Helpline is a free, confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year treatment referral and information service (in English and Spanish) for individuals and families facing mental and/or substance use disorders.
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SAMHSA’s National Helpline, 1-800-662-HELP (4357) (also known as the Treatment Referral Routing Service), or TTY: 1-800-487-4889 is a confidential, free, 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year, information service, in English and Spanish, for individuals and family members facing mental and/or substance use disorders.
This service provides referrals to local treatment facilities, support groups, and community-based organizations.
Also visit the online treatment locator, or send your zip code via text message: 435748 (HELP4U) to find help near you. Read more about the HELP4U text messaging service.
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English and Spanish are available if you select the option to speak with a national representative. Currently, the 435748 (HELP4U) text messaging service is only available in English.
In 2020, the Helpline received 833,598 calls. This is a 27 percent increase from 2019, when the Helpline received a total of 656,953 calls for the year.
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Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
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Misusing alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs can have both immediate and long-term health effects.The misuse and abuse of alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs, and prescription medications affect the health and well-being of millions of Americans. NSDUH estimates allow researchers, clinicians, policymakers, and the general public to better understand and improve the nation’s behavioral health. These reports and detailed tables present estimates from the 2021 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH).
Alcohol
Data:
- Among the 133.1 million current alcohol users aged 12 or older in 2021, 60.0 million people (or 45.1%) were past month binge drinkers. The percentage of people who were past month binge drinkers was highest among young adults aged 18 to 25 (29.2% or 9.8 million people), followed by adults aged 26 or older (22.4% or 49.3 million people), then by adolescents aged 12 to 17 (3.8% or 995,000 people). (2021 NSDUH)
- Among people aged 12 to 20 in 2021, 15.1% (or 5.9 million people) were past month alcohol users. Estimates of binge alcohol use and heavy alcohol use in the past month among underage people were 8.3% (or 3.2 million people) and 1.6% (or 613,000 people), respectively. (2021 NSDUH)
- In 2020, 50.0% of people aged 12 or older (or 138.5 million people) used alcohol in the past month (i.e., current alcohol users) (2020 NSDUH)
- Among the 138.5 million people who were current alcohol users, 61.6 million people (or 44.
4%) were classified as binge drinkers and 17.7 million people (28.8% of current binge drinkers and 12.8% of current alcohol users) were classified as heavy drinkers (2020 NSDUH) - The percentage of people who were past month binge alcohol users was highest among young adults aged 18 to 25 (31.4%) compared with 22.9% of adults aged 26 or older and 4.1% of adolescents aged 12 to 17 (2020 NSDUH)
- Excessive alcohol use can increase a person’s risk of stroke, liver cirrhosis, alcoholic hepatitis, cancer, and other serious health conditions
- Excessive alcohol use can also lead to risk-taking behavior, including driving while impaired. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 29 people in the United States die in motor vehicle crashes that involve an alcohol-impaired driver daily
Programs/Initiatives:
- STOP Underage Drinking interagency portal - Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking
- Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking
- Talk.
They Hear You. - Underage Drinking: Myths vs. Facts
- Talking with your College-Bound Young Adult About Alcohol
Relevant links:
- National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors
- Department of Transportation Office of Drug & Alcohol Policy & Compliance
- Alcohol Policy Information Systems Database (APIS)
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Tobacco
Data:
- In 2020, 20.7% of people aged 12 or older (or 57.3 million people) used nicotine products (i.e., used tobacco products or vaped nicotine) in the past month (2020 NSDUH)
- Among past month users of nicotine products, nearly two thirds of adolescents aged 12 to 17 (63.1%) vaped nicotine but did not use tobacco products. In contrast, 88.9% of past month nicotine product users aged 26 or older used only tobacco products (2020 NSDUH)
- Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death, often leading to lung cancer, respiratory disorders, heart disease, stroke, and other serious illnesses.
The CDC reports that cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States - The CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health reports that more than 16 million Americans are living with a disease caused by smoking cigarettes
Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use data:
- In 2021, 13.2 million people aged 12 or older (or 4.7%) used an e-cigarette or other vaping device to vape nicotine in the past month. The percentage of people who vaped nicotine was highest among young adults aged 18 to 25 (14.1% or 4.7 million people), followed by adolescents aged 12 to 17 (5.2% or 1.4 million people), then by adults aged 26 or older (3.2% or 7.1 million people).
- Among people aged 12 to 20 in 2021, 11.0% (or 4.3 million people) used tobacco products or used an e-cigarette or other vaping device to vape nicotine in the past month. Among people in this age group, 8.1% (or 3.1 million people) vaped nicotine, 5.4% (or 2.1 million people) used tobacco products, and 3.
4% (or 1.3 million people) smoked cigarettes in the past month. (2021 NSDUH) - Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2020 National Youth Tobacco Survey. Among both middle and high school students, current use of e-cigarettes declined from 2019 to 2020, reversing previous trends and returning current e-cigarette use to levels similar to those observed in 2018
- E-cigarettes are not safe for youth, young adults, or pregnant women, especially because they contain nicotine and other chemicals
Resources:
- Tips for Teens: Tobacco
- Tips for Teens: E-cigarettes
- Implementing Tobacco Cessation Programs in Substance Use Disorder Treatment Settings
- Synar Amendment Program
Links:
- Truth Initiative
- FDA Center for Tobacco Products
- CDC Office on Smoking and Health
- National Institute on Drug Abuse: Tobacco, Nicotine, and E-Cigarettes
- National Institute on Drug Abuse: E-Cigarettes
Opioids
Data:
- Among people aged 12 or older in 2021, 3.
3% (or 9.2 million people) misused opioids (heroin or prescription pain relievers) in the past year. Among the 9.2 million people who misused opioids in the past year, 8.7 million people misused prescription pain relievers compared with 1.1 million people who used heroin. These numbers include 574,000 people who both misused prescription pain relievers and used heroin in the past year. (2021 NSDUH) - Among people aged 12 or older in 2020, 3.4% (or 9.5 million people) misused opioids in the past year. Among the 9.5 million people who misused opioids in the past year, 9.3 million people misused prescription pain relievers and 902,000 people used heroin (2020 NSDUH)
- According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Understanding the Epidemic, an average of 128 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose
Resources:
- Medication-Assisted Treatment
- Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit
- TIP 63: Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
- Use of Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder in Criminal Justice Settings
- Opioid Use Disorder and Pregnancy
- Clinical Guidance for Treating Pregnant and Parenting Women With Opioid Use Disorder and Their Infants
- The Facts about Buprenorphine for Treatment of Opioid Addiction
- Pregnancy Planning for Women Being Treated for Opioid Use Disorder
- Tips for Teens: Opioids
- Rural Opioid Technical Assistance Grants
- Tribal Opioid Response Grants
- Provider’s Clinical Support System - Medication Assisted Treatment Grant Program
Links:
- National Institute on Drug Abuse: Opioids
- National Institute on Drug Abuse: Heroin
- HHS Prevent Opioid Abuse
- Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America
- Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) Network
- Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC) Network
Marijuana
Data:
- In 2021, marijuana was the most commonly used illicit drug, with 18.
7% of people aged 12 or older (or 52.5 million people) using it in the past year. The percentage was highest among young adults aged 18 to 25 (35.4% or 11.8 million people), followed by adults aged 26 or older (17.2% or 37.9 million people), then by adolescents aged 12 to 17 (10.5% or 2.7 million people). - The percentage of people who used marijuana in the past year was highest among young adults aged 18 to 25 (34.5%) compared with 16.3% of adults aged 26 or older and 10.1% of adolescents aged 12 to 17 (2020 NSDUH)
- Marijuana can impair judgment and distort perception in the short term and can lead to memory impairment in the long term
- Marijuana can have significant health effects on youth and pregnant women.
Resources:
- Know the Risks of Marijuana
- Marijuana and Pregnancy
- Tips for Teens: Marijuana
Relevant links:
- National Institute on Drug Abuse: Marijuana
- Addiction Technology Transfer Centers on Marijuana
- CDC Marijuana and Public Health
Emerging Trends in Substance Misuse:
- Methamphetamine—In 2019, NSDUH data show that approximately 2 million people used methamphetamine in the past year.
Approximately 1 million people had a methamphetamine use disorder, which was higher than the percentage in 2016, but similar to the percentages in 2015 and 2018. The National Institute on Drug Abuse Data shows that overdose death rates involving methamphetamine have quadrupled from 2011 to 2017. Frequent meth use is associated with mood disturbances, hallucinations, and paranoia. - Cocaine—In 2019, NSDUH data show an estimated 5.5 million people aged 12 or older were past users of cocaine, including about 778,000 users of crack. The CDC reports that overdose deaths involving have increased by one-third from 2016 to 2017. In the short term, cocaine use can result in increased blood pressure, restlessness, and irritability. In the long term, severe medical complications of cocaine use include heart attacks, seizures, and abdominal pain.
- Kratom—In 2019, NSDUH data show that about 825,000 people had used Kratom in the past month. Kratom is a tropical plant that grows naturally in Southeast Asia with leaves that can have psychotropic effects by affecting opioid brain receptors.
It is currently unregulated and has risk of abuse and dependence. The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that health effects of Kratom can include nausea, itching, seizures, and hallucinations.
Resources:
- Tips for Teens: Methamphetamine
- Tips for Teens: Cocaine
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
More SAMHSA publications on substance use prevention and treatment.
Last Updated: 01/05/2023
Quotes from the book “Out of Depression. Salvation from the swamp of chronic failures”
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Self-digging always backfires. It only makes our misery worse. It is a heroic attempt to solve a problem that cannot be solved. Because in order to fight misfortune, you need a completely different state of consciousness.
March 22, 2020
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If you live in the present moment and treat your thoughts and emotions as passing messages like sounds, sights, smells, tastes and touches, then these thoughts and emotions will not drown out the signals of the senses - signals that can keep us from sinking into negative thoughts.
June 4, 2020
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When we feel bad, we start to introspect, because we believe that this will open the way for us to solve our problems. But the opposite always happens: our ability to solve problems is clearly degraded. And there is plenty of evidence for this, indicating that introspection is part of the problem, not the solution.
March 20, 2020
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The habit of judging oneself severely disguises itself as an attempt to help oneself be better and live better, but in reality this habit begins to behave like an unreasonable and insatiable tyrant, for whom everything is not enough.
November 1, 2020
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So, when we return to a certain mood, memories and thoughts related to it automatically pop up in our minds, whether we like it or not. and with them those thought patterns that were created then, in that mood.
October 4, 2020
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The problem comes when your mind reacts to sadness.
September 8, 2020
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When we stop trying: • to impose pleasant feelings on oneself, they arise more freely on their own; • resist unpleasant feelings, we find that they can go away on their own; • do something, then a whole world of vivid and unexpected impressions can become available to us.
June 6, 2020
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Depression is a midday demon that only you can see; darkness that only you can see
April 8, 2020
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Freedom from depression is possible, but that freedom comes from a completely new vision and understanding of the true nature of the problem - this understanding will serve as a map leading us through new territory within our own lives and our experience, where we can discover and use the deep inner resources of the mind that most of us did not even know existed.
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90,000 quotes and aphorisms : meaningful, short, sad If you realize that you are developing depression or you already know what is happening to you, remember that you are not alone in your struggle for mental health. Believe me, others feel your pain and take care of you.
But it is not easy for them to be able to choose the right words and say them in time. Sometimes it's so important to read a few words from other people who feel the same way as you. Because the truth is, if you're depressed, you're far from alone.
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And we would like to remind you that if your (or your loved one's) condition is causing concern to you or those around you, then it is worth contacting a doctor to get a prescription for depression medication. Believe me, even if it seems otherwise to you, your psychological state is valuable for you and all your loved ones.
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Quotes and sayings about depression can give you an idea of what it's like to live with depression. They can also provide inspiration and a sense that people understand what is happening. These quotes about depression and sayings about depression and its problems deal with various aspects of the disease, such as grief, sadness, loneliness, and other related difficulties.
Feel free to share them on a social network to give yourself a sense of belonging to the world or to support others.
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We have carefully selected quotes about depression to make you feel remembered. And when you're looking for words to express yourself or help a friend feel less alone, this handy list of depression quotes will be right there.
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Frequent attempts to hide heartache add to the burden. It's easier to say: I have a toothache than to say: My heart is broken.
- Depression can make you hide inside yourself. But hiding your feelings (or lack of feelings, numbness) will not help you recover.
- Hold on to this hope: you can be cured of depression.
- We hide to experience our feelings, but we forget what our eyes say.
- Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and more difficult to bear. Frequent attempts to hide heartache add to the burden. It's easier to say: I have a toothache than to say: My heart is broken.
- I am bent but not broken. I am scarred, but not disfigured. I am sad, but not hopeless. I'm tired, but not powerless.
I am angry, but not upset. I'm depressed, but I'm not giving up.
Meaningful Depression Quotes
What causes depression is yet to be understood. There is no need to force yourself or others to answer such questions. Depression is just there. This is a condition that has a direct cause, and more often several. Perhaps quotes about depression with deep meaning will help you at this time.
- If you know someone who is depressed, please resolve to never ask why. Depression is not a direct reaction to a bad situation; depression is just there, like the weather.
- I am depressed. But I prefer to say I'm fighting depression rather than suffering. 'Cause the depression is coming, but I'm hitting back. The battle continues.
- You look happy, but you don't feel happy. That's what depression does to you.
- When you suffer from depression, your "I'm tired" means a constant state of exhaustion that sleep does not cure.
- No matter how bad things are now. No matter how stuck you feel. No matter how many days you spent crying and wishing things were different. No matter how hopeless and depressed you feel. I promise you that you won't feel like this forever. Keep walking.
- Whenever I have a good few months and think I've gotten over the worst of my depression, it silently returns. This is not the battle I asked for. I'm tired of knowing it always comes back.
- I wanted to write down exactly what I felt, but for some reason the paper was left blank and I couldn't describe it better.
- No one understands how strong a person with depression needs to be to do everyday things like take a shower, brush their hair, or get out of bed.
Short, concise quotes from depressed people
Hearing words from within is priceless. Perhaps these phrases and quotes that people with depression tried to tell how they feel will help others to look at themselves from the outside.
- It's dark in my forest today. The trees are sad and all the butterflies have broken wings.
- Sleep is no longer a dream, it is an escape.
- I was drowning, but no one saw how I struggled.
- My silence is just another word for my pain.
- I miss the person I used to be.
- Depression is a color blind person who is constantly told what a colorful world it is.
- What people never understand is that depression has nothing to do with the outside world; it's about the inside.
- When you're depressed, you don't control your thoughts, your thoughts control you. I want people to understand this.
- I don't use my depression as an excuse. Believe me, I would give anything to work normally day in and day out.
- Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your head. You just have to be careful and not touch where it hurts. Although he is always there.
Short quotes about depression, loneliness, sadness
These short quotes about depression, which people in this state said, seem to concentrate the feelings that cover the soul these days.
Quotes, aphorisms summarize the feelings and symptoms of depression in a few words.
- The worst kind of sadness is the inability to explain why you are sad.
- And then all of a sudden I felt sad for no reason at all.
- When you're depressed, simply being is a full-time job.
- Why does everything always seem worse at night?
- That's all I want in life: to make this pain seem purposeful, not so all-encompassing.
- Depression is not the same as sadness.
- Nobody ever tells you that emptiness weighs the most.
- I want to sleep until I feel better.
- Sometimes even living is an act of courage.
- I'm tired of trying to be stronger than I feel.
- I don't live. I survive.
- I feel lost inside myself.
- People don't die of depression, they die of sadness.
- Sometimes I feel sad, tired and unhappy for no reason.
- Nothing is more depressing than having it all and still being sad.
If you fall chronically, it's a lifelong struggle to keep from drowning.
Inspirational quotes and aphorisms about getting out of depression
Inspirational quotes about depression are beacons of hope for the darkest days. Remember that depression doesn't last forever. You will definitely feel better again.
- The Sun is a daily reminder that we, too, can be resurrected from darkness, that we too can radiate our own light.
- Your mental health is more important than a test, interview, lunch date, meeting, family dinner, and grocery shopping. Take care of yourself.
- All your quirks and all your problems - even your depressions and your failures - that's what makes you.
- You will feel better, maybe not right away, but you will. Keep living until you're alive again.
- You are allowed to feel confused and turned inside out. It doesn't mean you're flawed - it just means you're human.
- And if today all you did was stick together, then know that I am proud of you.
- Hold on, your story is not over yet.
- Anxiety-depressive disorder is not a personal failure.
- You are strong enough to survive.
Phrases about major anxiety-depressive disorder
Quotes about deep depression take us to the very heart of depression. Where the ocean of despair and darkness splashes. If you have never been depressed, these quotes will help you understand what a person with depression is going through.
- Depression is living in a body that is fighting to survive and a mind that is trying to die.
- During depression, the world disappears. The man has nothing to say. He asks: to live? But how and why? How will I manage the future? Why should I continue?
- Every thought is a battle. Every breath is a war and I no longer think I'm winning.
- I don't want to try again, try again. I just want to leave. I'm so tired.
- And something inside me just broke... That's the only way I can describe it.
- I wanted to talk about this. I wanted to scream. I wanted to scream. I wanted to scream about it. But all I could do was whisper: I'm fine.
- I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn, and the emptiness rolls over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever happens to me, it's my fault. I don't even see it, what drowns me. I am inadequate and stupid, worthless.
- It's like walking down a long dark corridor without knowing when the lights will come on.
- There comes a point when you no longer care whether there is light at the end of the tunnel or not. You're just sick of the tunnel.
- When depression takes over and I can't deal with it, I have to close the door and shut myself off from the world. It's the only way I know of to survive.
- Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too.
They live inside of us, and sometimes they win. - They go around me on the side - depression on the left, loneliness on the right. They don't need to show their icons. I know these guys very well.
- Death is not the biggest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we are alive.
- The silence oppressed me. It was not the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
- You won't understand depression until you can't bear being in an empty room. It seemed like it would never end. The world won't stop crumbling until there's nothing left of me but dust.
- I didn't want to wake up. I had much better sleep. And it's really sad.
- I feel sad all the time, and the sadness is so heavy that I cannot get rid of it.
- And I knew it was bad when I woke up in the morning and the only thing I was looking forward to was going back to bed.
- Sometimes I feel so sad. So sad that I'm completely shutting down. I stare blankly at the wall, and I don't care what you tell me.
Because at this moment I don't exist.
Quotes and statuses about depressive disorder and living with it
Quotes about depression and living in it illustrate what it's like to wake up depressed every day. They talk about isolation, loneliness and fatigue and other daily symptoms that people with depression experience on an almost daily basis.
- It was almost like a reversed nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you feel so relieved. I woke up in a nightmare.
- I want to tell you how to help me. I want you to tell me what I need. I wish I could do all of this.
- She is in pain and crying. But there is no depression in her eyes. Because she smiles for you.
- I wish I could go back to a time when I could smile without using all my strength.
- You try to think of someone else you're mad at, and the inevitable answer pops up in your twisted little brain: I'm mad at everyone.
- Because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or in an outdoor cafe in Paris or Bangkok - I sat under the same glass jar, stewing in my own sour air.
- I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart in front of them so that they love me, even if I am not cheerful, even when I am in bed, cry all the time, do not move. Depression is also about that.
- As far as depression is concerned, a person can survive almost anything as long as he has the end in sight. But depression is so insidious and worsens every day that it is impossible to ever see an end.
- Sometimes you feel like you want to disappear, but what you really want is to be found.
- Sometimes you just need someone to tell you that you're not as bad as you think.
- I wish I could go back to a time when I could smile without using all my strength.
- She says she's fine, but she's going crazy. She says she feels good, but she is in a lot of pain.
- It's hard to answer the question "What's wrong with you?" when everything is wrong.
- You hate when people see you cry because you want to be such a strong girl. At the same time, you hate that no one notices how broken and broken you are.
- Depression makes you isolated. It is very difficult to think about other people when you are wrapped in a prickly blanket of sadness and all you can think about is your own pain.
- I'm not sure if I'm depressed. I mean, I'm not sad, but I'm not exactly happy either. I can laugh and joke and smile during the day, but sometimes when I'm alone at night I forget how it feels.
- Everyone else seems to be living their own lives, and I'm stuck here in this hole that I can't get out of.
- There are wounds that never appear on the body, but they are deeper and more painful than anything that bleeds.
- You smile, but you want to cry. You talk, but you want to be silent. You pretend to be happy, but you're not.
- My body and heart were not made for this. I'm tired of fatigue and tired of sadness.
- I feel so disconnected from the world, and it seems to me that no one notices me or cares about me anymore.
- I thought that if depression was masked by silence, feelings might disappear.
- My life is a constant battle between wanting to be alone and not wanting to be alone.
- Sometimes I wonder if I will ever be satisfied with myself. I worry that if I can't be happy with myself, then no one will ever be happy with me.
- I want to be happy, but something inside me screams that I don't deserve it.
- The worst kind of pain is when you smile just to stop your tears.
- Sometimes the mere thought of meeting a new day seems like broken glass in my soul.
- I am the kind of girl who smiles to make everyone happy. Even if I'm dying inside.
- I hate this feeling. It's like I'm here, but I'm not there.
Like no one cares. - The only thing more tiresome than depression is pretending it isn't.
- I don't need a feeling of fullness, but a feeling of non-emptiness.
- Tears do not always measure pain. Sometimes we pretend to smile.
- When you are surrounded by all these people, it can be even more lonely than when you are alone. You may be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anyone, you feel like you're really alone.
- It makes no sense to treat a depressed person as if he was just sad, while saying "Well, wait, you will survive this." This sadness is more or less like a cold - with patience it goes away. Depression is like cancer.
- They ask. "How are you?" But what they mean is, "Are you well yet?" My lips say, “Okay, thank you,” but my eyes tell a different story, my heart sings a different tune, and my soul just cries.
- Depression is the feeling that you have lost something but have no idea when or where you last had it.
Then one day you realize that you have lost yourself. - Depression is an overwhelming feeling of numbness and a desire for anything that can help you get through the day.
- I define depression as comparing your current reality with a fantasy about how you would like your life to be.
- That's what depression is: a person can survive almost anything as long as he sees the end. But depression is so insidious, and it gets worse every day, that it's impossible to ever see an end. It's like a cage without a key.
- Depression is a prison in which you are both a suffering prisoner and a cruel jailer.
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Useful quotes about depression and getting out of it
Aphorisms, words and quotes about depression can give you an idea of the painful processes during depression. Often depression is accompanied by self-blame and a lack of understanding.
I would like these quotes and phrases to help people understand that depression is a symptom and not a character defect.
- You didn't get worse because you tried your best to kill your sadness. The fight will bring results.
- It all starts with not wanting to get out of bed, that's how you know you're getting sick again.
- Depression exists without your knowledge or even denial. This is not an illusion. You don't even know that you are in it. It will take some time before you realize it.
- Sometimes a person needs not a brilliant mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens.
- Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
- Dulling the pain for a while will make it worse and stronger when you feel it again.
- When you are happy you enjoy the music, but when you are sad you understand the words.
- Please try not to judge how someone handles pain you've never experienced.
- Depression is a lack of chemistry, not character.
Saddest Depression Quotes
Depression is not only sadness, but sadness is part of living with depression. These sad depressive quotes eloquently express emotions.
- It is very difficult to describe depression to someone who has never experienced it, because it is not sadness.
- Sadness hurts, but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is completely different.
- Depression is not just a little sad. Feels nothing. He no longer wants to live.
- Depression makes you say "I'm tired" when you're actually unbearably sad.
- Depression has nothing to do with a bad day or sadness.
- Grief is depression in proportion to circumstances; depression is sadness out of proportion to the circumstances.
- Anyone who has really been that sad can tell you that there is nothing beautiful, literary, or mysterious about depression.
- People think depression is sadness. People think depression is crying. People think depression is wearing black. But people are wrong. Depression is a constant feeling of numbness. Numbness to emotions, numbness to life. You wake up in the morning only to go back to sleep.
- What is depression like? It's like drowning. Except that you can see everyone around you breathing.
Psychologist's advice to help with depression
Quotes about depression in English from great and just famous people
Such quotes and aphorisms about depression are suitable for social networks. Not only do they help keep you going, but they show you that depression knows no bounds. However, so is hope.
- If you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.
— C.S. Lewis - If you have been up all night and crying until you have no more tears left, you know that eventually there is a sort of silence. You feel like nothing will ever happen again. — C. S. Lewis
- It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human. — David Mitchell
- You may feel confused and turned inside out. It doesn't mean you're inferior - it just means you're human. — David Mitchell
- I wish people could understand that the brain is the most important organ of our body. Just because you can't see mental illness like you could a broken bone, doesn't mean it's not as detrimental or devastating to a family or an individual. — Demi Lovato
- I would like people to understand that the brain is the most important organ in our body. Just because you can't see mental illness as a broken bone doesn't mean it's not that harmful or destructive to the family or individual.
