Depression, Mental Health etc

Whenever I feel insecure or unsteady I try to grab hold of things that steady me….. Billy does that.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

I’m actually luckier than most. I get to wake up each morning glad to start a new day…. Grateful that the last one is over.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

Today is gonna be a less bad day I can feel it. Sometimes I wake up and I just know that things are going to be…. Less bad.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

When I eat jell-o I feel better. Don’t ask me to reduce it to a science.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

I’m not going through an odd phase. I really am odd.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

All I ever wanted was to be rich and successful and to have three kids and a husband waiting at home to tickle my feet and look at me…. I don’t even like my hair!
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

My inner world is bigger than my outer one.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

I have a new philosophy; I’m only gonna dread one day at a time.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

So here I am, a victim of my own choices. And I’m just starting.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

It’s not that I don’t still have all the answers, just maybe not all of them are accurate.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

Who wants to be balanced? Balanced is way overrated.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

What’s so great about the real world?
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

It’s probably for the best; I’m not very good at being happy.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

Less fantasy, more reality.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

The real truth is I probably don’t want to be too happy, on content, because then what? I actually like the quest, the search, that’s the fun. The more lost you are the more you have to look forward to. What do you know, I’m having a great time and I don’t even know it.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

We’re not only wired to want what we can’t have, but we’re wired to want what we really don’t want.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

Just remember when you’re with me you’re not the strangest person in the room. Go ahead; get weird on me!
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

Whenever I get depressed I raise my hemlines. If I keep on like this I’m bound to get arrested.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

I’m gaining on happiness and I’m gonna get there one day.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

Whatever the virtues of balance it’s just a pleasant form of insanity.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

I honestly think I’m loosing my mind. I can’t loose my mind right now.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

Even if I get past my problems I’m just gonna go out and get new ones. Besides, I like being a mess. It’s who I am.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

They say it’s all in the attitude and mine has changed. And I can tell this time it’s gonna last….. maybe even a week.
- Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

One of the keys to life; the fast forward. Every movie has it’s lousy parts. The trick is to forward through them. As time passes you’ll look back and say ‘Oh that little thing, oh that’. Fast forward to then right now and you’re over it.
- Richard Fish
- Ally McBeal

Problem is just a bleak word for challenge.
- Richard Fish
- Ally McBeal

Face it, we don’t want anyone spleunking in our emotional cores. The echo would kill them.
- Ling Woo
- Ally McBeal

Maybe if we could cure this addiction to the dream at an earlier age it could spare a lot of pain down the road.
- Georgia Thomas
- Ally McBeal

Do you know anyone happier than me?
I used to but they jumped off a bridge!
- Ally McBeal & Richard Fish
- Ally McBeal

I love this world John, I really do.
Fine, then perhaps someday you'll choose to live in it with the rest of us.
- Ally McBeal & John Cage
- Ally McBeal

I’m not sure that you have two feet on the ground
You mean some people do?
- John Cage & Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

Do you know that you’re odd?
I do.
- John Cage & Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

I think I need mental help.
Why?
I feel happy.
- Ally McBeal & John Cage
- Ally McBeal

What makes your problems bigger than everyone elses?
They’re mine.
- Georgia Thomas & Ally McBeal
- Ally McBeal

How did I get to be such a mess so soon in my life?
You’ve always been ahead of your time.
- Ally McBeal & Billy Thomas
- Ally McBeal

Loneliness is just about the scariest thing there is.
- Angel
- Angel

You’re a vampire and you live in a city famous for it’s sunshine, and you drive a convertible. How much do you hate yourself?!
- Pseudo- Swami
- Angel

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battl, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live, I wonder if it’s worth it.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Prozac Nation

When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and I'm still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothing's changed.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Prozac Nation

And I want out of this life on drugs.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Prozac Nation

I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Prozac Nation

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together – the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night – can no longer combat whatever it is that was wrong with me in the first place. I feel like a defective model.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Prozac Nation

The brief relief of seeing other people when I leave my room turns into a desperate need to be alone, and then being alone turns into a terrible fear that I will have no friends, I will be alone in this world and in my life. I will eventually be so crazy from this black wave, which seems to be taking over my head with increasing frequency, that one day I will just kill myself, not for any great, thoughtful existential reasons, but because I need immediate relief.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Prozac Nation

Woke up this morning afraid I was gonna live.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
- Prozac Nation

Bitch: In praise of difficult women.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move.
- Douglas Adams
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I know the bottom she says. I know it with my great top root. It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.
- Sylvia Plath
- Elm

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the dream. A bad dream.
- Sylvia Plath
- The Bell Jar

If the darkening sky could lift more than one hour from this day, there are words I never would have said, nor have heard you say.
- Carol Ann Duffy

And she smiled at the questions as if to say ‘And if I answered would you know me then?’.
- Anna Nins Sabina

Very early in my life it was too late.
- Marguerite Duras
- The Lover

And suddenly, as he noted the fine shades of manner by which she harmonised herself with her surroundings, it flashed on him that, to need such adroit handling, the situation must indeed be desperate.
- Edith Wharton
- The House Of Mirth

It was like sawdust, the unhappiness; it infiltrated everything, everything was a problem, everything made her cry – school, homework, boyfriends, the future, the lack of future, the uncertainty of future, fear of future, fear in general – but it was hard to say exactly what the problem was in the first place.
- Melanie Thernstrow
- The Dead Girl

When I think of all the things he did because he loved me – what people visit on each other out of something like love. It’s enough for all the world’s woe. You don’t even need to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.
- Richard Bausch
- Mr Field’s Daughter

Don't let the Muggles get you down!"
- Ron Weasley
- J K Rowling
- Harry Potter

There’s nothing I hate more than nothing. Nothing keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothing. Nothing could cause a great big fight.
- Edie Bricknell
- Nothing

I myself am hell.
- Robert Lowell
- Skunk Hour

If the ending is messy one doesn’t remember anything good about any of it.
- Toby Cohen
- Lynne Reid Banks
- The Backwards Shadow

You are stronger than you seem, braver then you believe, and smarter than you think.
- Christopher Robin
- A A Milne
- Winnie- The- Pooh

My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle.
- Buffy Summers
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer

The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me.
- Buffy Summers
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Kekestos (Worst Of The Worst)
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer

He killed a person and killed himself, those are pretty much two of the dumbest things you can do."
- Buffy Summers
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer

I feel the need for more sugar than the human body can possibly handle.
- Buffy Summers
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer

I'll just jump off that bridge when I come to it.
- Buffy Summers
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Every single person down there is ignoring your pain because they're too busy with their own.
- Buffy Summers
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer

A Hundred years, just hanging around, feeling guilty. Really honed my brooding skills.
- Angel
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer


I'm alive- I can tell cause of the pain.
- Xander Harris
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Did it make you feel better?
For a second there.
A whole second.
- Xander Harris & Willow Rosenberg
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer

You trusting fool! How do you know the other world is any better than this?
Because it has to be.
- Anyanka & Rupert Giles
- Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Chocolate causes certain endocrine glands to secrete hormones that affect your feelings and behavior by making you happy. Therefore, it counteracts depression, in turn reducing the stress of depression. Your stress- free life helps you maintain a youthful disposition, both physically and mentally. So, eat lots of chocolate!
- Elaine Sherman

EMERGENCY ALERT: If wearer of this shirt is found vacant, listless, or depressed, ADMINISTER CHOCOLATE IMMEDIATELY.

Every night before I go to sleep, I lie on my bed and stare up at my blank walls. I try to imagine the future. But right now it’s as blank as those walls. All I can see is a past that I barely recognize any more.
-Dawson Leery
-Dawson’s Creek

There is no God, and there is no heaven, and there is no hope, and the only truth I know is pain.
- Jennifer Lindley
- Dawson’s Creek

I don’t wanna die. But……. I just didn’t care enough to run.
- Jennifer Lindley
- Dawson’s Creek

Most days I feel fine, I really do. But I'm not fine. In fact, I'm getting worse.
- Andie McPhee
- Dawson’s Creek

Letting go isn’t a one- time thing. It’s something you have to do over and over again, every day.
- Andie McPhee
- Dawson’s Creek

I can't hide from the truth anymore. I'm not getting any better.
- Andie McPhee
- Dawson’s Creek

Even if I don't particularly like who I am, I--at least I know who that is. I mean, if I tried to change... who the hell knows who I'd be?
-Audrey
-Dawson’s Creek

You know..I dont think I'll ever be happy...no matter where I am, I'll always want to be some place else. No matter what I have, I'll always want something different.
-Abby Morgan
-Dawson’ Creek

The heart is a fragile thing. Break it too badly and it might well never recover.
- Dawson’s Creek

Oh, you’re really one to talk, Dawson. I mean look at yourself, you don’t drink, and you don’t mess around, with anybody or anything, but you are the unhappiest person that I know.
You’re absolutely right! You know, I would take my melancholy over this any day, cause it’s real. I’m not fighting to pretend that I’m having a good time!
-Jennifer Lindley & Dawson Leery
-Dawson’s Creek

Can’t a person be in a good mood?
A person can. But you? You’re Miss Perma- Scowl.
- Joey & Bessie Potter
- Dawson’s Creek

I’m not miserable ok? I’m dissatisfied and that’s what makes me a success.
- Francis Fitzpatrik
- She’s The One

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.
-Susanna Kaysen
-Girl, Interrupted

How am I supposed to recover when I don't even understand my disease?
-Susanna Kaysen
-Girl, Interrupted

Watch out for the weirdo’s girls.
We are the weirdo’s mister.
- The Craft

You have a death wish it’s so selfish. I have one too but I direct it towards others.
- The Opposite Of Sex

Crying over it won’t make it clean.
- Hope Floats

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.
- Charlie Brown
- Snoopy

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
- Virginia Woolf

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
- Nora Ephron

How will you know I'm hurting if you cannot see my pain, to wear it on my body tells what words cannot explain.
- C Blount

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
- Euripides

I know there's a balance; I see it when I swing past.
- John Melencamp

Our deepest, most painful wounds not only leave us with scars that we bear forever but also, if we make our peace with them, leave us wiser, stronger, more sensitive than we otherwise would have been had we not been afflicted with them.
- Renita J Weems

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
- E Joseph Cassman

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.
- Judith Guest

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
- Elayne Boolser

Of course I'm sane! The voices told me so.
- Michael DeRosa

He’s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
- H H Munro

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire, the other is to gain it.
-George Bernard Shaw

During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing.
- Kate Millet

It isn't for the moment you are stuck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and security.
- Anne Morrow Lindberg

There are many who would rather meet their bitterest enemy in a field than their own hearts in their closet.
- Charles Caleb Cotton

And she smiled at the questions as if to say ‘And if I answered would you know me then?’.
- Anna Nins Sabina

What I’ve learnt about being angry with other people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.
- Oprah Winfrey

If it were not for hopes the heart would break.
- Thomas Fuller

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think
- Horace Walpole

If you want the rainbow you’ve got to put up with a lot of rain.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life your tears will stop you from seeing the stars.

At the end, were the tears worth it?

I wish that I could be in some other time and place. With someone else’s soul, someone else’s face.

The world is a vampire, everything you have hope in sucks you dry.

All prayers are answered. Sometimes the answer is, 'No.'

Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

The shining star that was your future is now a distant light.

Yeah, it is hard. It's like, I know that I want to say but I don't know how to put it.
I don't know how to help you with that one. For if I was able to do that, my life would be easy.

Never forget the hurt, never forget what they did to you, never forget your pain, lest you forget yourself. Let your wounds flow freely, your scars a testament to your defiance. Don't let them forget what happened. Hold your wounds up high, for all to see, let them see what has been done to you, and hope they can understand.

I curse myself every morning when I wake up alive.

Yes, I'm perfectly mentally unstable thank you.

Maybe I'm not crazy. Maybe this is just my personality.

I keep falling. And I wonder when I'm finally going to hit the ground.

I'm trying so hard to be a strong mature woman, but the small scared little girl inside is winning.

Can't anyone see the warning signs? Why do they think we read books about anorexia and self mutilation? We want to know how long we can go without eating or how thin we can get before we starve to death. We want to know how deep we can cut before we bleed to death. Most of all, deep inside, we want to get caught. We may not admit it to ourselves, but we really do want to get caught.

Once I can understand it, twice I can let it be, three times is one to many, now you'll have to do without me.

I never said, I want to be alone. I said, 'I want to be left alone. There is a world of difference.

I can't cry because then you'll feel guilty. You'd be sad. I don't want to make you sad, or guilty. I just want you to love me.

Everyone’s looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Me; I can’t even find the damn rainbow to begin with.

In my darkest hours, you are the bright light, that leads my away, from my precipice of despair.

Sometimes bad things happen, no reason, no purpose, they just happen. And we are left to pick up the pieces for the rest of our lives.

Nothing lasts forever, not even your problems.

What goes on in your heart? What goes on in your mind? You are tearing me apart, when you treat me so unkind.

In my isolation I learned to listen.

Being normal is not necessarily a virtue, it rather denotes a lack of courage
- Aunt
- Practical Magic

I know I’m not perfect but I can smile and I hope that you can see this heart behind my tired eyes.
- Dido
- No Angel

I want to feel safe in my own skin. I just want to be happy again. I just want to feel deep in my own world. But I’m so lonely I don’t even want to be with myself anymore. On a different day, if I was safe in my own skin. Then I wouldn’t feel so lost and so frightened. But this is today and I’m lost in my own skin. And I’m so lonely I don’t even want to be with myself anymore. I just want to feel safe in my own skin. I just want to be happy again.
- Dido
- Honestly OK

Why can’t we see in ourselves the beauty we see in everybody else?
- Vonda Shepard

Here I am, a stranger to a smile. Trying to fight the tears, missing by a mile.
- Celine Dion

And you can’t fight the tears that aint comin', or the moment of truth in your lies. When everything feels like the movies, yeah, you bleed just to know you’re alive.
- Goo Goo Dolls

Somewhere I lost myself in a tunnel long and black. Somewhere at the end, I pretend, there’s a way of turning back.
- Natalie Imbruglia
- One More Addiction

I think it’s getting to the point where I can be myself again. I think it’s getting to the point where we have almost made amends. I think it’s getting to the point that is the hardest part.
- Barenaked Ladies
- Call And Answer

One day you’ll realise that the tears you saw in my eyes will be there forever.
- Geri Halliwell
- Walkaway

Jagged thorns and pretty petals, butterflies and stinging nettles. Sunny days and nights of blackness but where’s the joy to cure my sadness?
- Tal Bachman
- If You Sleep

I don’t have low self-esteem. I have low self-esteem for everyone else.
- Daria
- Daria

What’s that matter? Why are you pouting?
I’m not pouting.
Hey, I watch ‘Ally McBeal’. I know what pouting looks like. You’re pouting.
- Grace Adler & Will Truman
- Will & Grace