Sentence examples for devastating depression from inspiring English sources

Discovering that my mother had suffered devastating depression made me see that she was more than who I thought she was.

During his high school years, Mr. Ball recalled, his parents went through a devastating depression following the death of his older sister, Mary Ann, in a car accident.

Terry was wearing it last fall on the day she took her own life, the victim of a devastating depression that gripped her out of nowhere and pulled her into a darkness from which she felt there was no escape.

Gunnlaugsson sold his 50% of the company to Pálsdóttir for $1 at the end of 2009, soon after he was elected as an MP for the first time and a year after the financial crisis that plunged Iceland into a devastating depression.

For most of those invoking his name, he was a kind of social engineer, who urged using the power of government to lift the economy out of the devastating depression of the 30s.

By the mid-1890s, in the midst of a devastating depression, tariff reform leapt to the front of electoral politics.

The poet Jane Kenyon, who suffered from devastating depressions, wrote, "With the wonder and bitterness of someone pardoned for a crime she did not commit I come back to marriage and friends . . . to my desk, books, and chair".

Devastating depressions and recessions have rocked our society.

The word may be tossed around casually, but through the stories of an assortment of people like Mr. Solomon (the author of "The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression"), who have battled the condition or lost loved ones to it, this program makes clear just how devastating clinical depression is.

After my older brother Bill was born, my mother had a devastating postpartum depression: she cried all day, refused to dress, could not take care of the baby.

It underestimated the scale of what has proved to be a devastating Greek depression, fueled in part by sharp government spending cuts and tax increases.