![]() “Hold on to this hope: You can get better from depression.”ĭepression quotes are available to remind you there are treatments for depression and you're never too depressed to get better. *Click the images to open a larger, shareable image. Feel free to share them on your website, blog or social page for your own enjoyment or to help others. It’s a conundrum and I’m not sure how I’m going to solve it other than by valuing myself in a healthy way, being able to put up healthy boundaries, and being able to say ‘no’ if I’m uncomfortable about something or it would cause me difficulties.Depression quotes and sayings about depression can provide insight into what it's like living with depression as well as inspiration and a feeling of "someone gets it." These quotes on depression and depression sayings deal with different aspects of the illness such as grief, sadness, loneliness and other related issues. One coping strategy I have is that I don’t let people get close to me, yet I yearn for meaningful, deep connection with like-minded souls, kindred spirits. Once aware of this tendency I could start to change my behaviour. It took a lot of work in various forms of counselling, self-reflection and EMDR for me to recognise that I have been a people-pleaser. However, I can still default to this ‘people-pleaser’ setting when I’m anxious or emotionally vulnerable. Nowadays, I’m more aware of my emotional, physical and mental needs now, thanks to EMDR therapy. There’s a good helping of shame around all this too, along with a lot of grief for what never was and never could be. ![]() ![]() I’ve been left believing that I am unlovable and unlikable and not good-enough. It never worked though other people would get what they wanted and in return I would not get what I was hoping for or was told I would get. It’s a pattern of behaviour that carried on through my life. The quote above relates to me being a ‘people-pleaser’, which is one way that CPTSD presents in me.įrom as early as I can remember, I tried to do and be what would make others around me like me or love me, even if it meant doing things that made me feel horrible. Warning – the following may contain triggers. I need lots of tea before I leave – I have less than an hour to sort myself out. So self-care will be important later on in the day. I expect that I’ll be drained after the talk – I usually am. I’d set my alarm for 7:30am as I have to be in Llandridnod Wells before 11am to give an anti-stigma talk on behalf of Time to Change Wales. I got to sleep early enough but I woke around 3:30am and couldn’t get back to sleep until gone 5am. I may return to colouring the design in, but I think I’ll use colours that are reminiscent of linocut artworks – flat colour and letting the lines add the shadow and texture, depth and dimension to the image. I scanned the drawing in, cleaned it up digitally and then added a background to it rather than colour the elements in. I can now see that I may go back and add some texture and pattern to the leaves, berries and some flowers that are quite bare to help to bring them to add depth and dimension. ![]() ![]() I kept to a small number of repeating motifs in this design. I added the illustration around it using a combination of Tombow Fudenosuke and Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens. I used a script font and printed the quote out in a square format. I just had to make it pretty – Angela style of course. This Nicola Lyons quote is another that resonated with me and brought some tears to my eyes and echoes of pain to my heart too. Artwork by Angela Porter of About the art ![]()
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