“Work is always an antidote to depression.”

“A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.”

“The best thing you can do is just keep busy, keep working hard, so you’re not dwelling on it all the time. Work is the best antidote for sorrow.”

“Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.”

“They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.”

“With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.”

“creative people always suffer from depression because we're so
super sensitive and special?”

“The reporting of depression is often associated with the dependency of women on men. But it is dependency on men successful enough to allow a woman the time to think about more than survival. Which is why, when we think about women who report depression, we think of middle-class women, not working-class women. The working-class woman is too worried about survival to report depression. Depression is a diagnosis that tends to increase among those with the luxury of worrying about something other than survival. The more a person is in Stage II, the more that person can afford to focus on depression.”

“Poor quality job-hunting can be the surest way of remaining without work, of being depressed and of feeling that life has no direction.”

“There is no alternative to work. I find nothing nicer than working. MK tells me that I am a workaholic. If I don’t work I get a headache and I feel depressed. I like to work round the clock all the time.”