23 Famous Quotes by Johann Hari about Depression Quotes
1. "At my book signings, i always ask people if they would like a hug. In oxford this afternoon, a woman said yes, teared up, and said: “that’s the first hug i have had in ten years.” There’s so much isolation in our culture." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
2. "Depression isn’t a disease; depression is a normal response to abnormal life experiences." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
3. "Loneliness hangs over our culture today like a thick smog." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
4. "If you have a friend going through a crisis, never say “if i can help, let me know.” It sounds vague, perfunctory. I try to always say: “please tell me what i can do to help: i want to help you.” Friendship is a commitment: always show up in a crisis." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet 5. "The scientific evidence is clear that exercise significantly reduces depression and anxiety." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
6. "It’s horrifying that many mental health services turn away people with addiction problems, telling them to “sort out their addiction first” – as if addiction isn’t fuelled by problems like depression or psychosis." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
7. "If you are depressed or anxious – your pain makes sense. You’re not crazy. You’re not broken. There’s scientific evidence for why people feel this way. There’s a mix of causes – biological, psychological and social. None are your fault and all can be dealt with, with love and support." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet 8. "I was only able to start changing my life when i realized my depression was not a malfunction. It’s a signal. Your depression is a signal. It’s telling you something." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
9. "When they talk among themselves, advertising people have been admitting since the 1920s that their job is to make people feel inadequate – and then offer their product as the solution to the sense of inadequacy they have created." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
10. "It’s been known for decades that depression has 3 kinds of cause: biological, psychological, and social. They are all real. Yet most people are told a heavily biological story, with a little side-dish of psychology, and virtually nothing about social causes. We need a correction." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet 11. "Loneliness isn’t just some inevitable human sadness, like death. It’s a product of the way we live now." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
12. "The more you think life is about having stuff and superiority and showing it off, the more unhappy, and the more depressed and anxious, you will be." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
13. "If you are depressed and anxious, the main thing i want to tell you is: your pain makes sense. It has meaning. You aren’t a machine with broken parts. You are a human being with unmet needs. Don’t let anyone tell you you’re crazy or broken. You deserve love and practical support." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet 14. "Loneliness is not the physical absence of other people: you can be surrounded by people and be lonely. It is the feeling that you are not sharing anything meaningful with other people." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
15. "The act of releasing your shame is – in itself – healing." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
16. "With the right help, we can understand these problems and we can fix these problems together. But to do that, the very first step is we have to stop insulting these signals by saying they’re a sign of weakness, or madness or purely biological, except for a tiny number of people." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet 17. "Our epidemics of depression, anxiety and addiction are signals. They are telling us something is going terribly wrong with how we live." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
18. "The internet was born into a world where many people had already lost their sense of connection to each other. The collapse had already been taking place for decades by then. The web arrived offering them a kind of parody of what they were losing – facebook friends in place of neighbors, video games in place of meaningful work, status updates in place of status in the world." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet 19. "There are real brain changes that can happen when you become depressed that can make it harder to get out." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
20. "Depression is, in part, grief for your own life not turning out how it should; grief for your own needs not being met." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
21. "Put down your phone. Talk to someone face to face. We are all kinder out here in the meat-world." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
22. "The comedian marc maron once wrote that “every status update is a just a variation on a single request: ‘would someone please acknowledge me?”" (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
23. "The more you think life is about money, and status, and how you look to other people, the more vulnerable you are to depression and anxiety. Just like junk food has taken over our diets, junk values have taken over our minds and made us sick." (Depression Quotes) Click to tweet
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