1. “Just remember, you are not alone, in fact, you are in a very commonplace with millions of others. We need to help each other and keep striving to reach our goals.”
2. “I am bipolar, and I am proud. And that is why I wanted to write a book. To shine a light on mental illness, to be vulnerable about the days I let it take control and paid dearly for it, and to tell anyone fighting a similar battle; You are not alone. You are not broken.”
3. “Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you’ll land among the stars”
4. “Remember, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”
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5. “In my early professional years I was asking the question; How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way, How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”
6. “you look at me and cry everything hurts i hold you and whisper but everything can heal”
7. “Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.”
8. “Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.”
9. “You have permission to rest. You are not responsible for fixing everything that is broken. You do not have to try and make everyone happy. For now, take time for you. It’s time to replenish.”
10. “If you are not happy with something, you should change it. So, I went to a lot of therapy, and finally, I am able to speak up for myself; You are going to hear me roar!”
11. “They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world; someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
12. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
13. “You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.”
14. “Meditation is something I’ve always been interested in. It always has felt a little mysterious and out of my reach. Right after Black Panther came out, the day after the Oscars, I went on a ten-day silent retreat. It was a gift.”
15. “Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them—every day begin the task anew.”
16. “Talking to somebody just helped me out a lot. As a man, you get a lot of slack for it. I don’t really subscribe to that. Everyone needs to unpack and talk.”
17. “The role of the therapist is to reflect the being/accepting self that was never allowed to be in the borderline.”
18. “I knew well enough that one could fracture one’s legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.”
19. “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.”
20. “We take care of ourselves financially so we can be generous with others.”
21. “We want you to know that you don’t need to be in crisis or distress to seek help as going to therapy has numerous benefits.”
22. “Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.”
23. “You don’t have to follow others. You can pave your own path.”
24. “This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
25. “I was with someone recently who asked, ‘Well, don’t you think that if you do too much therapy it will take away your artistic process?’ And I told them; ‘The biggest lie that we’ve ever been sold is that we as artists have to stay in pain to create.”
26. “No amount of therapy can or self care can make up for scarcity of food & drink, time, or financial resources.”
27. “I don’t have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I’m making the music.”
28. “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.”
29. “Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.”
30. “Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.”
31. “I literally should go to a Twitter therapist, just the 10 years of stress and trauma with this company.”
32. “I’m on a constant path of self-discovery and change. I’m trying to become a better person, a nicer person. I love therapy – it’s brilliant.”
33. “Life is like a piano; the white keys represent happiness and the black show sadness. But as you go through life’s journey, remember that the black keys also create music.”
34. “The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts.”
35. “Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heartstrings. It acts as medicine.”
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36. “You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!”
37. “Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.”
38. “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
39. “Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.”
40. “If you want to help arm the schools, arm them with school supplies, books, therapists – things they actually need and can make use of.”
41. “Just putting my uniform on keeps me going. Being able to get out there keeps me going. That’s the best therapy.”
42. “The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and win battles that others do not know anything about.”
43. “Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability — the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy — to uncover our true abilities, and how we can put them to use for us in ways we may have never imagined.”
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44. “Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person’s physical, emotional, and mental states.”
45. “I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you’re not alone. You’re not the first to go through it; you’re not going to be the last to go through it.”
46. “Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.”
47. “You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared and anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a negative person. It makes you human.”
48. “Great marriages aren’t about clear communication-they’re about small moments of attachment and intimacy.”
49. “There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy.”
50. “Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I’ve been able to use my life as a lesson.”
51. “There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.”
52. “It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
53. “Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength-carrying two days at once. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
54. “There’s nothing like seeing your floor clear because you organized and cleared the space of all that clutter. That’s how I feel when I go to my therapist.”
55. “Massage therapy has been shown to relieve depression, especially in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome; other studies also suggest benefit for other populations.”
56. “Food is a lot of people’s therapy – when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It’s releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good.”
57. “Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mould the experience the way you want. It’s therapy.”
58. “Everyone experiences a version of anxiety or worry in their lives, and maybe we go through it in a different or more intense way for longer periods of time, but there’s nothing wrong with you.”
59. “I keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life.”
60. “Therapy has really helped me. It allows me to process and regulate what is coming in because I can easily get overwhelmed by all the different elements coming at me.”
61. “Therapy isn’t radio. We don’t need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when it’s quiet, surprising things happen.”
62. “Some therapists have proclaimed, ‘Co-dependency is anything, and everyone is co-dependent.”
63. “To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.”
64. “I could walk through fire if it meant making my dreams come true. That is the gift being bipolar gave me. It blessed me with a lofty imagination, an iron will, and an unbreakable belief in the impossible.”
65. “What does your anxiety do? It does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but it empties today of its strength. It does not make you escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it comes.”
66. “I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job, and financially you need never to worry. Ever.”
67. “The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.”
68. “Just because no one else can heal or do your inner work for you doesn’t mean you can, should, or need to do it alone.”
69. “I like to have a massage therapist come to my house, get a massage, take a bath, go to bed. That’s a perfect night alone for me.”
70. “Emotional wellbeing is just as important to us as Breathing is!”
71. “There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.”
