“A lot of us look like we are thriving but are just barely making it. Know that you are not alone in living with this.”— Saladin Ahmed, twitter.com
“'Depression is a choice' = 'your pain is your fault' 'You can overcome this if you just try hard enough' = 'Your pain is making me uncomfortable. Please shut up.' If you are unburdened by depression, real true depression, count yourself lucky. Keep your quick fixes to yourself. This is the kind of b…”— Andy Richter, twitter.com
“The world we are living in -- and the peace that we have -- is very fucked up if somebody is missing war. And many people do.”— Nidzara Ahmetasevic, amazon.com
“If you are mentally ill and someone is making fun of mental illness, please remember it is their ignorance and not a reflection on you.”— Nikita Gill, twitter.com
“If a man insisted on always being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“But emotional experience is as real and as valid as physical experience.”— John Green, johngreenbooks.com
“If you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing.”— Michel Foucault, amazon.com
“Sometimes I just think depression’s one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there’s so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com
“If I can't choose my thoughts and I am, at least in part, made out of thoughts, then am I actually the captain of this ship I call myself?”— John Green, youtube.com
“Don’t be embarrassed to seek help if you’re depressed. If you broke your leg, you’d put a cast on it. Why is your brain any different?”— Matthew Santoro, twitter.com
“How many more ppl have to end their own lives before we start talking openly about mental health? How many must continue to silently suffer.”— Matthew Santoro, twitter.com
“Waking up is not a one-time event. Waking up is a practice. Waking up is a commitment that continues for a lifetime.”— Chani Nicholas, chaninicholas.com
“Throw a rock in your office and you’ll hit a woman who is harming herself one way or another.”— Marti Noxon, vulture.com
“What I've learned in my life is if someone is acting badly, they're in pain. It's a really simple rule, they're either scared or in pain.”— Sebastian Junger, youtube.com
“As he inflates his imagination, he inflates his capacity for anxiety, and inevitably becomes the victim of crushing phobias that can only be allayed by crushing doses of heroin or alcohol.”— John Cheever, amazon.com
“What made you sad is just as important as with what made you happy.”— Juansen Dizon, wnq-writers.com
“There is a gentrification that is happening to cities, and there is a gentrification that is happening to the emotions too, with a similarly homogenizing, whitening, deadening effect. Amidst the glossiness of late capitalism, we are fed the notion that all difficult feelings -- depression, anxiety,…”— Olivia Laing, amazon.com