98 quotes found
“The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.”
“The silence in our house now is born from the need for intense concentration, as we all carefully step around the truth we wish we didn't know, the person we can't help that Bo became, the future w...”
“The basic human craving is for meaning.”
“Invalidation is about dismissing your experiences, thoughts and above all your emotions. Indeed the intention is to not even allow you to have those thoughts, experiences and emotions. Its a way of...”
“The process is important, regardless of the outcome, just ask Schacter.(...)mental health... is not a destination but a process. It's about how you drive, not where you're going. The therapist is l...”
“To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.”
“Officially, it is no more possible to be a little bit OCD than it is to be a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead.”
“But my thoughts were more like poisons. I had so many, they made me sick.”
“But the human mind, when it reaches the bottom of the abyss, must bounce back or disintegrate entirely.”
“The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not”
“Many [Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers] DONMs have a deeply buried sense that we are inherently flawed. That there is something twisted and evil and nasty and noxious and poisonous about us, and t...”
“And for three weeks I was trapped in my own mind again. But this time, I had weapons. One of them, maybe the most important, was this knowledge: I have been ill before, then well again. Wellness is...”
“If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; If you talk to the dead, you are a schizophrenic”
“No one is too far away to be cared for, or to care.”
“Mental health is one of the last great taboos.”
“I laughed it off but I close the bedroom door and I lose it and I stick it all down here and this is where it all stays. And this is where it has to stay because I am not ending up in the nutter wa...”
“Nothing. That's why it's funny. It's so bad I just think it's funny,' Renee says, tilting her head back so the chips don't fall out of her mouth.Do you really?If I dont laugh about it what else wil...”
“Be who you are. Do what you can. Embrace the journey.”
“You have got to get creative if you want anyone to notice your goddamn teenage angst.”
“Nine out of ten introverts agree: The telephone is the tool of the devil.”
