Quotes about "Mental Health Recovery"

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning. ”

Bipolar indicates that you're not - you don't just experience depression, but the mood swing goes up, and it can go very up. ”

You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity. ”

The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing. ”

To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins. ”

I was in musical comedy. And I did very well, but the memorization killed me. I'm not good at memorizing, and it gave me a lot of anxiety. I hated the makeup. I hated all that pancake makeup. I didn't really like dressing for parts. ”

I fight to prioritize black mothers and black children because we deserve to live in a world where our healing is centered and our lives are treated with dignity, respect, and care. ”

My personal history, along with the history of many black people in this country, is rife with trauma born out of anti-black policies aided and facilitated by presidents and their administrations. ”

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period. ”

Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring. ”