Quotes about "Mental Health Recovery"

America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it. ”

I had huge separation anxiety as a kid. ”

People with anxiety tend to be hyper-reactive. We are like jack rabbits, off and running to the races, reacting to some event, even while the event is still happening. ”

If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it. ”

I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way, and you know you're not quite there, and you're redoing it and redoing it, and there's a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard. It's a job of tremendous anxiety for me. ”

I like people a lot, but I am not comfortable in literary New York situations. There is deep anxiety and tension around success here. I don't share problems I'm having about my work, and I think conversations around publishing are boring. ”

My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times. ”

I am not a therapy person, but I understand what therapy does. It's a way of translating dark thoughts into something manageable. ”

We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct. ”

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier. ”