"She was drowning but nobody saw her struggle."
"She says she's fine she's going insane. She says she feels good but she's in a lot of pain. She says it's nothing but it's really a lot. She says she's okay but really she's not."
"All it takes is a beautiful ale smile to hide an injured soul and they will never notice how broken you really are."
"I just want to feel that I'm important to someone."
"Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern, just the slow erosion of self, as insidious as cancer. And like cancer, it is essentially a solitary experience; a room in hell with only your name on the door." - Martha Manning
"The difference between you and me s thy when you wake up, your nightmare ends."
"I don't think anyone could ever criticize me more severely than the way I viciously criticize myself."
"I feel like everybody secretly hates me."
"I know I have to be careful because there is something self-destructive within me."
"The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. The most damaged people are the wisest. All because they do not wish to see anyone else suffer the way they do." - Anonymous
"I find that I spill my heart out to anyone who gives me the slightest bit o attraction. Silly me, thinking they actually care." - K.B
"The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die." - Juliette Lewis
"And sometimes it hits me out of nowhere, all of a sudden, this overwhelming sadness rushes over me. And I get discouraged and I get upset and I feel hopeless, sad, and hurt. And once again, I feel numb to the world."
"That feeling when you're not necessarily sad, but you just feel really empty."
"Trust me, I know how it feels. I know exactly how it feels to cry in the shower so no one can hear you, and waiting for everyone to fall asleep so you can fall apart, for everything to hurt so bad you just want it all to end. I know exactly how it feels."
"Sometimes when I say 'I'm okay', I want someone to look me in the eyes, hug me tight, and say, 'I know you're not'."
"Saying someone can't be sad because someone else may have it worse is just like saying someone can't be happy because someone else might have it better."
"I keep so much pain inside myself. I grasp my anger and loneliness and hold it in my chest. It has changed me into something I never meant to be. It has transformed me into a person I don't recognize; but I don't know how to let it go."
"Atelphobia; the fear of not being good enough."
"Just 'cause you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive."
"I miss the person I used to be."
"She's standing on a line between giving up & seeing how much more she can take."
"Every thought is a battle, every breath is a war, and I don't think I'm winning anymore.."
" 'What is depression like?" he whispered. 'It's like drowning. Except you can see everyone around you breathing.' "
"You hate when people see you cry because you want to be that strong girl. At the same time, though, you hate how nobody notices how torn apart and broken you are."
"I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going inside your head when you don't even understand it yourself."
"I often miss this little girl......whose dreams had no barriers....who believed in a world where anything is possible with a heart that was full and unbroken."
"My head is a very dark place."
"I can think of a hundred ways to die and a hundred ways to do it. But I can't think of a hundred ways to live or a hundred ways to do it. So I lock myself away for hundreds of hours and hundreds of days and try not to think at all." - b.i
"I am ready to leave this place. Forget about everyone I know. Pack up and leave. I am tired of the memories that linger around the corner of the meaningless routine that is draining my soul away. I am ready to go, no goodbyes or explanations. I am ready to start over."
"You smile, but you wanna cry. You talk, but you wanna be quiet. You pretend like you're happy, but you aren't."
"She's got the eyes of innocence; the face of an angel, a personality of a dreamer and a smile that hides more pain than you can ever imagine."
"That moment when you can actually feel the pain in your chest from seeing or hearing something that breaks your heart."
"The worst kind of sad is not being able to explain why."
"I am good for a while. I'll talk more, laugh more. Sleep and eat normally. But then something happens. Like a switch turns off somewhere. And all I am left with is the darkness of my mind. But each time it seems like I sink, deeper and deeper. And I am scared...terrified that one day I won't make it back up. I feel like I am gasping for air, screaming for help. But everyone just looks at me, with confused faces, wondering what I am struggling over. When they're all doing just fine, and it makes me feel crazy. What the hell is wrong with me?"
"I Am Depression. I'm the emptiness you feel at 2am. The tears with no meaning. The pain when you smile. I don't come alone. I bring my closest friends.... We are the scars that, cover your body. The voice you despise, but soon learn to trust... I am the only thing you will feel..."
"I wish I could go back to a time when I could smile and it didn't take everything in me to do it."
"Because I know what it feels like to beg to God to just take it all away."
" 'I love you more than shoes' ...said no one ever"
"Do not confuse my bad days as a sign of weakness. Those are actually the days I am fighting my hardest."
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