“My head, like a lot of people's heads, is kind of like a neighborhood you don't want to walk around alone in late at night.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, open.spotify.com
“Just as none of us are 100% physically healthy, none of us are 100% mentally healthy. We are all on a scale.”— Matt Haig, amazon.com
“The more I investigated depression and anxiety, the more I found that, far from being caused by a spontaneously malfunctioning brain, depression and anxiety are mostly being caused by events in our lives. If you find your work meaningless and you feel you have no control over it, you are far more li…”— Johann Hari, huffingtonpost.com
“I can’t help but be skeptical about Facebook’s ability to change its product significantly enough to improve the mental health and wellness of its users. I think it is kind of like a tobacco company saying “we’re going to make our cigarettes healthier”. There is an addictive nature to the platform w…”— Kunal Gupta, polar.me
“Anxiety traps you in your own head by lying to you, making you think things are impossibly bad so you won’t try to fix it. Let people help you by offering outside perspective.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“Anxiety is exacerbated by a loss of control. Remember to prioritize issues based on what you can do for them, rather than how much stress they cause. The more effort you can make, the more in control you’ll feel.”— Sam Sykes, twitter.com
“It has been argued that food and eating have replaced sex as our foremost cultural taboo. To some extent I agree with this but would point out that the taboo is not against food, or sex, or flesh, but against a loss of control.”— Marya Hornbacher, amazon.com
“Who would you be without trauma? How much of you was created out of survival?”— Sex Therapist, twitter.com
“Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves and it stays with us for the rest of our lives.”— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com
“If anxiety is our chief malady, avoidance is its coddling nurse, always ready to assure us we need not risk confrontation with that which makes us uncomfortable.”— Lisa Marchiano, quillette.com
“An October 2017 New York Times article entitled “Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Extreme Anxiety?” looked at the rising tide of teen anxiety in the United States. Increasing academic pressures, the advent of smart phones, and ubiquitous social media use were explored as pote…”— Lisa Marchiano, quillette.com
“Recovery from disordered eating begins with the understanding that the disordered eating behavior served you when your goal was survival.”— Anita Johnston, amazon.com
“What I’ve been trying to do lately is write down five things I’m grateful for that morning in my notes app. It’s a mental-health thing. I was like, Oh, well, if I can’t stop reaching for my phone first thing because it has my alarm on it, then I should start with that routine instead of reading what…”— Tavi Gevinson, thecut.com
“At the end of the day, we’re all in charge of what we bring to our lives. So be the person who brings light to your own, even if nobody else shows up to it. Be the person who has a good day, even if nobody wishes it to them. Find a way to fuel your flame when no one else remembers to, because the wo…”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“I am also learning that self-care can be the tiniest detour. It can start with the smallest decision.”— Megha Pulianda, psychologytoday.com
“Sabine says, Honesty is the only antidote for shame. She is trying to save me. But I am tired.”— Cynthia Cruz, bombmagazine.org
“The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so if you give them even half an excuse, they're going to want to believe it.”— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com
“Isn’t it stupid that we sometimes know exactly what could help us feel better but we still won’t do it?”— Katie Mather, thoughtcatalog.com