“Self-care is a nebulous name for a group of behaviors that should have a simple definition: taking care of yourself. But it’s no longer just meditation and journaling; everything can now be #selfcare.”— Shayla Love, tonic.vice.com
“Pete is a young person trying to navigate fame; harassment shouldn’t be considered a normal part of being a celebrity.”— De Elizabeth, teenvogue.com
“Mental health is a complex, multi-layered issue. Having suffered from anxiety and depression myself, I know how difficult it is to articulate my feelings even to a trained human being, who can see my facial expressions and hear the nuanced inflections in my voice, or even my body language.”— Dr. Pragya Agarwal, forbes.com
“I think we’ll truly be there with mental health when we just see it exactly the same as physical health … But I think the first step has to be the conversation, and the conversation is happening so that’s good.”— Matt Haig, theguardian.com
“It’s sometimes nice just to test things and talk to readers and hear back, and it makes you feel real, like you’ve got a real job with real people and you’re not in your little ivory tower … But when people get piled on, there’s nothing worse for your mental health.”— Matt Haig, theguardian.com
“She treats it like she would any other chronic illness: as something that's not my fault.”— Christopher Post, self.com
“Being happy doesn’t mean you don’t have issues. It just means that you’re working on them.”— Oscar Balderrama, Speed Weed, Oliver Queen, Stephen Amell, imdb.com
“Whatever got me emotionally to the place I needed to be, that's what I did.”— Michael B Jordan, comicbook.com
“lmaoaoo this is funny as fuck but in all honesty therapy has saved my life so many times. if you’re afraid to ask for help, don’t be. u don’t have to be in constant pain & u can process trauma. i’ve got a lot of work to do but it’s a start to even be aware that it’s possible.”— Ariana Grande, twitter.com
“I like thinking about a lot of things at once, but at a certain point, it gets to be too much. And that's when I kind of crumble.”— Rachel Bloom, allure.com
“Masculinity—a coarse and not particularly helpful term—doesn't exactly lend itself to introspection, discussing feelings, or even feeling those feelings.”— Editors of GQ, gq.com
“You can't always lift someone up out of the mud. You actually just end up getting pulled down too.”— Hannah Hart, youtube.com
“When these people pour their souls out and tell you they don’t have social support, or that the relationships they would usually count on to hold them steady in difficult times aren’t available, any empathetic, human reaction would be, 'Wow, I wish I could be there more than this conversation.'”— Katie Heaney, thecut.com
“Your Mental Health Shelf is a place—physical or imaginary—filled with books, movies and music you return to over and over, for comfort, knowledge or pleasure. They sit at the intersection of nostalgia and wisdom. They’re the things that make your heart sing, or remind you of lying on your childhood…”— Victoria Storm, manrepeller.com
“I’ve learned to expect comments about my body from others in my life (and even random strangers on the street), but to hear the same from a medical professional, particularly one who's aware of my eating disorder, always feels like a special brand of disappointment.”— Rosemary Donahue, allure.com
“We’re supposed to be happy all the time, which, turns out, is a hard thing to do when you’re constantly being told you can do and be better, and more positive, and more productive. It’s almost like self-help isn’t always... that helpful.”— Clay Skipper, gq.com
“But what ended up happening was that the restraining order I had against my shitty emotions expired and showed up on my doorstep being like, 'Got a cig? We need to talk.'”— Ryan O’Connell, mylivejournalsucks.tumblr.com
“It’s just Thursday. My 260th Thursday as a passenger on the cruise ship Mental Health.”— Noah Hawley, David Haller, Dan Stevens, imdb.com