“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.”
Anonymous
“You smile, but you wanna cry. You talk, but you wanna be quiet. You pretend like you’re happy, but you aren’t.”
Anonymous
“When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean she is rejecting you. Rather, she is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which she believes is the essence of her being and which she believes can injure you.”
Dorothy Rowe
“Sometimes I get so sad. So sad that I completely shut down. I stare blankly at the wall and it doesn’t matter what you say to me. Because in that moment I don’t exist.”
Anonymous
“I’m honestly one of those people that are just there like, yeah, I have friends and people talk to me, but I’m nobody’s favorite person and nobody looks forward to talking to me everyday or anything and it sucks.”
Anonymous
“On the outside I seem like a happy go lucky person who has their shit together. On the inside I am breaking down and battling years of hidden depression and just making it all up as I go.”
Anonymous
“I say ‘sorry’ a lot. Mostly because I feel like everything is my fault.”
Anonymous
“Sleep isn’t just sleep anymore. It’s an escape.”
Anonymous
“I think about dying but I don’t want to die. Not even close. In fact my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There’s so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I’m still here in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can’t quite figure out what the hell I’m doing or how to get out of it.”
Anonymous
“If you could read my mind… you would be in tears.”
Anonymous
“Faking a smile is so much easier than explaining why you are sad.”
Anonymous
“You should not have to rip yourself into pieces to keep others whole.”
Anonymous
“And I knew it was bad when I woke up in the mornings and the only thing I looked forward to was going back to bed.”
Anonymous
“Just for once, I want someone to be afraid of losing me.”
Anonymous
“Sometimes all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.”
William C. Hannan
“I want to be happy but something inside me screams that I do not deserve it.”
M. B.
“Sad people always try to make other people happy because they know how terrible it is to feel worthless.”
L. H.
“I lie about being sick sometimes, because people understand if you have a cold, but not if you have depression.”
Anonymous
“Having anxiety and depression is like being scared and tired at the same time. It’s the fear of failure but no urge to be productive. It’s wanting friends but hating socializing. It’s wanting to be alone but not wanting to be lonely. It’s caring about everything then caring about nothing. It’s feeling everything at once then feeling paralyzingly numb.”
Anonymous
“I haven’t felt alright for a really long time.”
Anonymous
“I don’t want to wake up anymore. I don’t want to get out of bed and I don’t want to keep trying and I don’t want to fail anymore. I just want to give up. I just want to go away or disappear and I want to stay like that for a while. Yeah, I’d like that a whole lot.”
Anonymous
“I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself.”
Anonymous
“The worst kind of sad is not being able to explain why.”
Anonymous
“I’m exhausted from trying to be stronger than I feel.”
Anonymous
“I’m drowning, and you’re standing three feet away screaming ‘learn how to swim.'”
C. J.
“I’m the type of girl who smiles to make everyone’s day. Even though I’m dying on the inside.”
Anonymous
“Depression is when you don’t really care about anything. Anxiety is when you care too much about everything. And having both is just like hell.”
Anonymous
“I wanted to talk about it. Damn it. I wanted to scream. I wanted to yell. I wanted to shout about it. But all I could do was whisper, ‘I’m fine.'”
Anonymous
“It doesn’t happen all at once, you know? You lose a piece here. You lose a piece there. You slip, stumble, and adjust your grip. A few more pieces fall. It happens so slowly, you don’t even realize you’re broken… until you already are.”
Grace Durbin, Broken
“I am the type of person that will sit in the bathroom and cry, but then walk out like nothing ever happened.”