“I want us to stop this culture of only talking about mental health when a famous person dies. It should be an ongoing discussion where awareness is spread and future tragedies are prevented. It should not be an attempt by some to get retweets and likes.”— Luke Waltham, twitter.com
“I’m just so tired of people acting like people struggling with mental illness never tell people or try to get help at all and if they had it would’ve changed everything. It’s ridiculous and so often untrue.”— Lane Moore, twitter.com
“I am more observant and compassionate toward those whose behavior seems bizarre or rude.”— Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman, lennyletter.com
“Sometimes it helps to just get the things out in a safe, loving environment. But you can't solve everything. So do your best to not make anyone feel terrible about just feeling their feelings.”— Jean Grae, twitter.com
“Not everyone is okay with talking about uncomfortable things, or LISTENING to uncomfortable things. We’ve been made to feel certain ways about them. Like it’s not normal. But it is. Please just be open to listening. Please try your best to get things out of your head.”— Jean Grae, twitter.com
“I’ve been in some very dark places. Different times and different things, over the course of my life. Thought about ending things. Attempted to end things. Thankfully, I openly talked about it. I’m okay with talking about extremely uncomfortable things. Not everyone is.”— Jean Grae, twitter.com
“Depression will whisper in your ear. I can’t say 'don’t listen' because I know sometimes it’s a shout and you can’t help it. But there are other, better voices. I try to hear them instead.”— Olivia A. Cole, twitter.com
“I've been down some bad and fucked up roads in my life. I've felt pretty much like I was at the end. I don't know why or how or what got me past that, and I still struggle with depression and anxiety.”— Jason Diamond, twitter.com
“It was the seventh deadly sin. My children weren't righteous. They stumbled because I was evil. The way I was raising them they could never be saved....Better for someone else to tie a millstone around their neck and cast them in a river than stumble. They were going to perish. I was so stupid! Coul…”— Andrea Yates, web.archive.org
“I was afraid if I discussed it that it would happen. If it was—we had spoke [sic] to this treatment and started—he said that Satan can’t read your thoughts. But if you say them aloud, he will hear them and he’ll use them against you. Now, I thought I verbalized these fears that that they would come…”— Andrea Yates, transcripts.cnn.com
“I put him in the water until he stopped breathing. I don’t know how many minutes it was or anything.”— Andrea Yates, transcripts.cnn.com
“Well, I thought I, they had given me some medicine, and I lay down for a nap, and I was kind of in between staying asleep and awake, and I thought I heard some voices come from the wall, and uh, I thought the voices said in a growl, in a gravelly voice, I thought he said, ‘Andrea, come here,’ and I…”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“I had these visions of harming Noah, and so I said, [inaudible] closing in. And I called Rusty at work and told him I needed him to come home. When he came home, I said I needed help, and I meant medical help. He thought I meant help with the children.”— Andrea Yates, transcripts.cnn.com
“When he came up out of the water and said something, but I didn’t know what it was. It was like ‘I’m sor—,’ and I didn’t hear the rest. I don’t know if he was saying, ‘I’m sorry,’ or what.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“The drownings. They, um, I drew up the water, and Rusty had already left for work that day, and I went in the bathroom, and I set Mary on the floor. And while I was filling the tub, Paul came in, and he sat on the tub and he said, he said “Mommy are we gonna take a bath today?” And then he asked aga…”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“Well, doing it would take them to heaven, and not doing it there’d be a risk of Satan messing them up.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com
“I...I thought about what I was about to do and how it fit in there, the deadly sins. And how I would have done all of them after I drown my children.”— Andrea Yates, parkdietzassociates.com