“What made me empathic was my depressions.” — Alice Weaver Flaherty Quote

What made me empathic was my depressions.

It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.

How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that…we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.

Neurology and psychiatry should be treating the same organ.

I think a certain amount of depression is sort of a normal state of mind to have. Deep depression is another story - and I wouldn't say I've been quite there, but you know I have been quite down at times, I have not wanted to leave the house for days on end.

I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.

We think, 'I'm Ricky Hatton or I'm Tyson Fury, I can take on the world.' You can take on the world in the ring but this problem called depression, you can't take it on.

Mental illness and depression are the reason why I no longer have a father.