The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness because I am often down and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness it helps to know unhappiness.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression that happiness is an ongoing battle and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

Our Generation has had no Great war no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The Great Depression like most other periods of severe unemployment was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get I'll never be as good as a wall.

I found when I left that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet they'd come and seek me out we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine.