Sentence examples for spell of depression from inspiring English sources

In February 2012, in the middle of a brutal spell of depression, I made my first ham-fisted attempt to take my own life.

A short spell of depression sat on my shoulders like that creature in Five Children and It – and while it was up there, it blew an existential crisis in my ear.

In 2012 McKenzie was jailed for six months, admitting six charges of perverting the course of justice after sending letters to police – pretending to be from a fictional garage – to avoid paying speeding fines, during a particularly severe spell of depression.

Another wrote, "Spells of depression . . .

The rise of the Nazis increased Sam's spells of depression.

"Throughout my life, I've had bad spells of depression, monstrous.

He compares it to short spells of depression during Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika in the 1980s.

She was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in early adulthood, and her symptoms included auditory hallucinations, spells of depression and catatonic trances.

People with the illness, also called bipolar disorder, swing back and forth between bleak spells of depression and periods of high excitability that may run the gamut from euphoria to rage.

His enthusiasm for the island lasted a few months while he was on it; then he began falling into spells of suicidal depression, became ill, & sank into such state that the authorities repatriated him to France.

At the same time, when a range of more temporal life stressors (such as illness in the family especially among children, financial problems, and lack of support from family members) strike at the same time, this could push women into spells of severe depression.