“Youve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem.”

“You know what is beautiful? A real conversation with a real person.”

“No, Ben. What Im asking is: Are you the vehicle, and Georgie rides around in you? That is why Bens the driver, right?”

“Thoughts. Thoughts bombard my head, my brain. My psyche”

“Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.”

“How simple it is to acknowledge that all the worry in the world could not control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now, and that there will never be a time when it is n...”

“What if you had such severe schizophrenia that your life was just one hallucination after another? And what if people kept trying to drag you back out of those hallucinations, to prove that you wer...”

“You're not to achieve anything, on the contrary you are to drop whatever you have accumulated over ages and its difficult mind you, not that its part of you, but YOU have owned this mental clutter ...”

“The unique stigma of PTSD. The stigma of PTSD remains one of the most formidable barriers to effective care.”

“Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.”

“The DSM-IV-TR is a 943-page textbook published by the American Psychiatric Association that sells for $99...There are currently 374 mental disorders. I bought the book...and leafed through it...I c...”

“Mental illnesses grab you by the leg, screaming, and chow you down whole.They make you selfish. They make you irrational. They make you irrational. They make you self-absorbed. They make you needy....”