Quotes about "Mental Health Recovery"

People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it's like, 'Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!' And I know because I'm guilty of it, too. ”

Before I got on full-time medication, I believed that my mental disorder was the reason I could create so much and create well, because it made me crazy. I could go to these dark places and then come out of it and just be human again. ”

My protagonists have problems that a new pair of shoes won't solve. Retail therapy is not a bad thing, but it's not going to fix their lives. ”

If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?' ”

My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest. ”

I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar. ”

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story. ”

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination. ”

In order to be a good emergency contact, you need a lot of friend-patience and empathy. Often, this comes from personal experience with anxiety, trauma, and depression. ”

For people who deal with anxiety or depression or can't be in large social groups cognitively, emotionally, or even physically, phones help bridge the gap. ”