“I wished that I had died, it would have been better for everyone”

“I didn't feel very lucky. Why me, I kept asking myself. Why had this happened to me?”

“I would need an awful lot of willpower to fight my way through the ups and downs of the road to recovery, and there might be times when I may feel a bit down and depressed, but there would be couns...”

“I was extremely worried. What would happen to me now that they knew that I had lost my mind? Would they put me in a padded cell and feed me through a hatch door? Would I end up in one of those plac...”

“My brain refused to move past the pain, as if it had been filled to the max and needed to be emptied.”

“I was trying to work out who I was.”

“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more complet...”

“All this wondering was the weather vane on top of the building of unrest and of discontent”

“Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.”

“If you feel unhappy, sick or depressed, spend more time in nature and you will come to see the colors of life, youll come to experience the amazing changes that this world can do for you. The wonde...”

“When you come out of the grips of a depression there is an incredible relief, but not one you feel allowed to celebrate. Instead, the feeling of victory is replaced with anxiety that it will happen...”

“Whenever you feel a little stricken down in pain, think about this. The knife has to be sharpened by striking and rubbing it against something strong before it can become useful! You are going to b...”