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‘Sorry, did I say something wrong?’ said Marvin, dragging himself on regardless. ‘Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don’t know why I bother to say it. Oh God I’m so depressed. Here’s another one of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don’t talk to me about life. Life,’ said Marvin dolefully, ‘loath it or ignore it, you can’t like it.’ Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Universe, Marvin the Paranoid Android
I think you ought to know I’m feeling very depressed. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 2005 starring Martin Freeman & Sam Rockwell & Mos Def & Zooey Deschanel & Bill Nighy & Warwick Davis & Anna Chanccellor & John Malkovich & Kelly Macdonald et al, director Garth Jennings; viz also novel Douglas Adams, Marvin
What the fuck do you know about depression? The Sopranos s1e12: Isabella, Silvio to Chris, starring James Gandolfini & Lorriane Bracco & Edie Falco & Michael Imperioli & Dominic Chianese & Steven van Zandt & Tony Sirico & Robert Iler et al, HBO 1999
You have a tendency towards depression, yes. The Sopranos s2e13: Funhouse, Carmela
Are you depressed? The Sopranos s3e7: Second Opinion, Tony to Carmela
I’m a little depressed. The Sopranos s4e1: For All Debts Public & Private, Tony at Dr Melfi
I got up this morning, the depression just washed over me. The Sopranos s5e8: Unidentified Black Males, Tony to Dr Melfi
Obviously I’m prone to depression. A certain bleak attitude about the world. But I know I can handle it. Your kids though when they’re young and they’re sick you’d give anything in the world to trade place with them so they don’t have to suffer. And then they think you’re the cause of it ... This miserable existence. The Sopranos s6e17: Walk Like a Man
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it’s good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason. Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Shortly after the three astronauts’ triumphant return to Earth ... Buzz Aldrin the second man to walk on the moon sank into a depression for no apparent reason. Dark Side of the Moon, 2002
Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction. It is already happening to some extent in our own society. Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. In effect antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual’s internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable. Theodore Kaczynski
Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behaviour that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn’t fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good. Theodore Kaczynski
Depression was a powerful force in Van Gogh’s life and work. Living itself seemed a continuous struggle for him. He’d no money and he often went hungry. When he was twenty-one he fell in love with one of his models – a pregnant and alcoholic prostitute. Great Artists with Tim Marlow: Van Gogh, Sky Arts 2003
Not mad exactly but suffering. Vincent was an epileptic and struggled with deepening bouts of depression, made worse no doubt by the relentless bad news from Theo that still nobody wanted to buy his pictures. Simon Schama’s Power of Art: Van Gogh, BBC 2006
Is something wrong, sir? Something getting you down? Is it that you’re the last human being alive with no life, no family, no future, no prospects, no hope? Red Dwarf s10e5: Dear Dave, Kryten, BBC 2012
He [Doctor] thinks I’m suffering from clinical depression. Star Trek: Voyager s5e3: Extreme Risk, B’Elanna to Chakotay
I think I’m a tad depressed. This Must Be the Place 2011 starring Sean Penn & Frances McDormand & Judd Hirsch & Eve Hewson & Kerry Condon & Harry Dean Stanton & Joyce van Patten & David Byrne & Olwen Fouere et al, director Paolo Sorrentinol, Penn
In the summer of 1693 Isaac Newton was having a catastrophic nervous breakdown. He had always suffered intense bouts of depression and mania. Tristram Hunt, Great Britons: Isaac Newton, BBC 2002
He [Churchill] had always been prone to bouts of depression: he called them his black dog. And now he fell into his worst depression ever. Mo Mowlam, Great Britons: Churchill
In 1946 President Truman signed the National Mental Health Act. It had been born directly out of the war-time discoveries by psychoanalysts that millions of Americans who had been drafted suffered hidden anxieties and fears. The aim of the Act was to deal with this invisible threat to society. Adam Curtis, The Century of the Self, BBC 2002
In America in the 1960s was a man who was convinced that there was something frightening hidden under the surface of the new modern suburbs. Behind what looked like a confident individualism was rising up throughout America there were really hidden fears eating away at people from inside. There were feelings of anxiety, loneliness and emptiness, and he was convinced he could make a lot of money out of these feelings: he was called Arthur Sackler … Valium: he offered it to the doctors as an extraordinary new way to treat these inner anxieties, and he said it wasn’t dangerous or addictive. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head III: Money Changes Everything, BBC 2021