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People came to us suffering from depression and/or anxiety who were on medication and many, many have told us that after using this for 12 months, they didn't need the medication anymore. But I am not making medical claims about this because we have not done controlled studies. We're doing one now.

Stress and depression really are not scientifically established as carcinogenic factors.... You don't have to feel guilty that you're stressing or depressing yourself into a case of cancer.

So you might not be able to tease out the difference between a manic-depressive episode and depression unless you can accurately test for bipolar disorder. We found that the K-SADS was an effective way to as accurately as possible diagnose bipolar disorder, and to help prevent treating bipolar patients presenting in a depressed phase with antidepressants.

The more difficult politicians make it to do business in the United States, the more they risk triggering global depression and economic stagnation.

Coffee drinkers seem to do everything that seems to put them at risk for depression and suicide, but they are highly protected,

depression that we haven't done better, that we didn't learn more than we did from 9/11.

Depression set in and I would break down and realize that I'm in a wheelchair, and I can't be doing the things I used to do.

Depression has many forms. You might get up in the morning and just as soon not face the day. You feel overwhelmed with it all and are continually feeling low.

Depression does not discriminate. It doesn't matter whether you are successful, it doesn't matter how intelligent you are, how rich you are, it can hit you at any time in your life.

Depression and psychological distress are key motivating factors, ... We need a better system of taking care of these needs, and of reducing care needs so everything doesn't fall exclusively on the patients' families.

That's Mike (Shanahan's) deal. I was still in depression mode until I came over here from the regular season, so a lot of those things like that don't really effect me right now, so I don't worry about it.

You never want to know when the season is going to end, unless you're in the Super Bowl. You go through a period of depression for a while. You miss the guys. You miss the practices. You miss the meetings. We're in this game because we love it. So this is our Super Bowl, and this is our playoff game coming up. It's the last game of the year. We want to play and do as good as we can and take it from there.

A lot of people don't pay attention to a tropical depression at first,

A lot of it for us is little things. You know, when Jeffrey Foucault was playing, I was happy that the editors of No Depression and Performing Songwriter were there. I think for all of our artists, just having a little bit of a profile here is a good thing.

A lot of people will try to understand depression but you find it takes time, it is very difficult.

It was set up for vaudeville and silent movies, but by the time it was built vaudeville was dead. The Depression killed it.

It's barely a tropical storm and we will likely downgrade that -- in fact I'm sure we'll downgrade that -- to a tropical depression within a couple of hours.

It is short-sighted protectionist measures - like the ones being pursued by members of Congress - that helped precipitate the Great Depression. The more difficult politicians make it to do business in the United States, the more they risk triggering global depression and economic stagnation.

It's like when there is a tropical depression off the Leeward Islands. We need to pay attention. A disaster could be coming our way.

David suffered from periods of deep depression and evidently could no longer cope. His mother and I trust that he is now at peace with the demons that finally possessed him.

Then the Depression came along, and rich playboys and flappers weren't funny anymore,

That may help with depression or symptoms of depression.

Ecstasy's effects are supposed to include enhanced feelings of bonding with other people, euphoria, or relaxation. Individuals with signs of anxiety or depression may be particularly susceptible to these positive effects and may therefore use ecstasy to relieve their symptoms.

The aggravated agony of depression is terrifying, and elation, its nonidentical twin sister, is even more terrifying-attractive as she may be for a moment. You are grandiose beyond the reality of your creativity.

That hurt me - that's what drove me into depression where I didn't care. Once I saw my grandmother and him, I lost all of what I had in me. I said, 'He's the reason she looks like that.' I'm still not out of it. I get real disturbed at night. Imagine this person you came out of the womb looking up to. It's just tough, man.

Not everyone who gets insomnia will eventually get depression. The next step is to try treating young patients who aren't depressed yet, but have a family history of depression and are having sleep disturbances.

I started going through a bad depression towards the end of my career. My self-esteem was really low. It took me a few years to recover from it.

I try to think of Pop, but all this does is sink me with memories of him, reawakening the depression over him I've been fighting to get over.

They wouldn't give them to me, and I was out. I suffer from severe depression among other things, and that's medicine that I need to take. And I felt very hopeless, and I called around to several different people that should be able to help me and couldn't.

There's the famous thing that the A&R man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.

The thing is so tight that euphoria and depression are going hand in hand with both of them.

Anxiety disorders, depression can cause the same appearance of the same symptoms (as ADHD), but you have a whole different reason for these, so treatment is dramatically different.

The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families.

I hope to get justice because this whole episode has made me a depression patient.

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Dr. Sterling was right about that. I loved it because I thought it was all I had. I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony.

If you have depression and chronic pain, it's important to figure out what came first. Chronic pain sufferers often get a stigma if we can't find a structural reason for the pain.

In the past, so often, individuals felt -- and even presently -- that depression is a personal flaw or a personal weakness. The more we can help people to understand that it is a medical condition, the more readily they'll seek help.

If you treat it as an illness, it could cause depression because (patients) may begin to believe there is something wrong with them. Really, there is nothing wrong with them. They just want to be social.

I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world and my spirituality. I sat at a piano, and the ideas fell into my head. I started playing, and I felt comfortable with my music for the first time.

Children who are very shy or anxious or overly aggressive often get caught up in bully-victim relationships that have negative impact on both children. It is also common for children with social difficulties to be excluded from everyday peer activities and experience feelings of discomfort, sadness and alienation. Adverse peer experiences can be stressful for children and, if persistent, can lead to feelings of anxiety , depression and loneliness.

I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud.

how depression challenged a president and fueled his greatness.

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

For the immediate future, at least, the outlook (stocks) is bright.

There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.

The end of the decline of the Stock Market will probably not be long, only a few more days at most.

Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months.

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

Gentleman, you have come sixty days too late. The depression is over.

In the larger view the major forces of the depression now lie outside of the United States, and our recuperation has been retarded by the unwarranted degree of fear and apprehension created by these outside forces.

Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.

I am convinced that through these measures we have reestablished confidence.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover.

Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the pipes freeze; we thought it hit us because Daddy didn't move his taxi stand and because he broke his hip. It was only later I found out it was a national phenomenon.

I have a plan-to go mad.

I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

Don't go to bed with any woman crazier than you are.

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.

There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you live in. Where you're not getting any answers, but you're living OK. And you can smile at the office. You know? But it's a low level of despair. I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything's just OK.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.

They made us participate in their own madness, because we couldn't help but retrace their steps, rethink their thoughts, and see that none of them led to us.

They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

I have gone insane. I won't be talking with you for a while.

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well, some things are not different.

I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.

While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocence self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind; we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.

You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.

It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.

I am, as it happens, a baby boomer, but not one who feels any broad-gauge nostalgia for the '60s and '70s. My attitude resembles that of my parents, who were born in the '20s and lived through the Great Depression and World War II.

If depression had settled like a blanket on the minds of most players,

He's not some cold-hearted killer who went to the hospital out of a show. He was extremely upset and distraught to the point of severe depression that evening.

However, Allied Printing brought the four of us into the middle class and kept us in the middle class thru the Depression of the 1930's.

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.

Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.

I'm what you call a Depression sailor.

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting into tears for no reason.

There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation.

The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up....moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt....even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life.