Quotes about "Mental Health Recovery"

When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy. ”

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication? ”

And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I've never thought about before and also calling me on this inward spiritual journey. ”

Let's say I'm not feeling well, and somebody would say to me, 'Just do an easy show, just go out and do a light...' - I can't! I cannot do that kind of a show. I have to still put 150 percent into it, and it's funny: it's so healing to do that. ”

Identifying with a character is one of the best parts of seeing a movie, but as women, we've had to train ourselves to experience the male journey. ”

It's definitely been a long, long... long, long, long, long, long journey since I was selling burnt CD's out of my backpack in downtown Oakland. ”

If the spectrum linking everyday depression to Major Depression sometimes hinders understanding of it, it also offers an opportunity for empathy. Because almost everyone, at some point, experiences feelings of sadness, of hopelessness, of emptiness, not to mention lethargy and irritability. ”

In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it. ”

Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments. ”

You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others. ”