“This is so very important. People with intellectual disabilities are sexually abused at SEVEN TIMES the rate of non-disabled people. Education & empowerment is key to helping them protect themselves & recover.”— Martha Plimpton, twitter.com
“Depression is an unbelievably powerful thing. It’s wild. One minute you can just be sitting there enjoying yourself and then, without even so much as a change in wind direction, your brain can decide that your world is crashing down all around you.”— Elan Gale, twitter.com
“If you don’t get hit with 'bouts of depression, that is wonderful. Consider yourself lucky. And remind yourself that not everyone is as lucky as you. Instead of telling them what to do, ask them what they feel. It can make all the difference in the world.”— Elan Gale, twitter.com
“It often has nothing to do with any reality. Nothing had to change. Your perception about things shifts instead. Things that were good become meaningless. Things that were bad become dire. All without anything happening. Maybe that’s why it’s so flabbergasting when someone tries to say that depressi…”— Elan Gale, twitter.com
“Depression understands growth comes from destruction.”— Kristin Michelle Elizabeth, thoughtcatalog.com
“If your back hurts it might hurt more by sitting down. If your mind hurts it hurts by thinking. And you feel there is no real, easy equivalent of standing back up.”— Matt Haig, amazon.com
“When people are behaving in apparently self-destructive ways, it’s time to stop asking what’s wrong with them, and time to start asking what happened to them.”— Dr. Robert Anda, huffingtonpost.com
“I apologize if my isolation feels like rejection to you, but if I don't put myself first, I'm going to break.”— Naomi, twitter.com
“Do not judge. Do not assume you know how they might be feeling. Do not assume it’s 'just for attention.' We all have a responsibility to remove this awful stigma and we can only do that by talking and sharing our experiences in a nonjudgmental way.”— Amy Stevens, themighty.com
“When you take your pill it's like a mine disaster. I think of all the people lost inside you.”— Richard Brautigan, amazon.com
“I simply am a damaged human swimming in a pool of emotions everyday of my life. There's a ragin' violent storm inside of my heart at all times. I don't know what peace feels like. I don't know how to relax.”— Kid Cudi, facebook.com
“I think you're both mentally ill. And by the way...they're real, and they're spectacular.”— Peter Mehlman, Sidra, Teri Hatcher, imdb.com
“Dark and disturbed? His whole life revolves around Superman and cereal. I convinced him to act like that so that you would think I was funnier. That's how disturbed I am! If you want disturbed, that's disturbed. You can't find sickness like that anywhere, you think sickness like that grows on trees?…”— Peter Mehlman, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“I'm not stable? I'm like a rock. I take these glasses off, you can't tell the difference between me and a rock. I put these glasses on a rock. You know what jumps into most people's minds? Costanza.”— Larry David, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“How come the psychiatrist, every, the hour is only fifty minutes? Wha, what do they do with that ten minutes that they have left? Do they just sit there going, ‘Boy, that guy was crazy. I couldn't believe the things he was saying. What a nut! Who's coming in next? Oh, no, another head case!’”— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“My friend Bob Sacamano had shock treatments. But his synapses were so large, it had no effect.”— Elaine Pope, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com
“I should be in a place like this; I envy this woman. You get to wear slippers all day. Friends visit. They pity you. Pity is very underrated. I like it, it's good. Plus, they give you those word association tests. I love those.”— Elaine Pope, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“I've driven women to lesbianism before, but never to a mental institution.”— Elaine Pope, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com