13 quotes found
“I lay there for three whole days, totally paralyzed. My friends helped me to the bathroom and anywhere else I needed to move; but I have very vague impressions of those days because it was a time o...”
“I admit to being prone to deep thinking, which given that Im emerging from dark times can take me to some very sombre or profound places. But this is no bad thing. I always resurface wiser and wi...”
“You are constantly told in depression that your judgment is compromised, but a part of depression is that it touches cognition. That you are having a breakdown does not mean that your life isn't a ...”
“And I know, knew for sure, with an absolute certainty, that this is rock bottom, this what the worst possible thing feels like. It is not some grand, wretched emotional breakdown. It is, in fact, s...”
“I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up.”
“Instead of heading for a big mental breakdown, I decided to have a small breakdown every Tuesday evening.”
“If you think that your partner has been cheating, then take a look at their will. If a past lover is in there, then it is probable that some form of infidelity has occurred.”
“Give yourself a break to avoid a breakdown.”
“There comes a time when you just have to say, No! to the requests and to the system.”
“Most of us, at some time or other, get sucked into the lifeless vacuum of work; the cogs of the corporate machine that we keep turning until one day, when we depart this Earth, we may earn the word...”
“The ever-increasing weight of responsibilities that enmeshes our lives keeps us locked into the system. We become the pulse that keeps the beast alive, but the cost is our own lives. The natural wo...”
“I admit to being prone to deep thinking, which – given that I’m emerging from dark times – can take me to some very sombre or profound places. But this is no bad thing. I always resurface wiser and...”
“There comes a time when you just have to say, “No!” – to the requests and to the system.”
