Quotes About Mental Illness Recovery

#1. I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up.

Fennel Hudson

#2. Never has nostalgia held stronger sway; never has the belief in the redemptive possibilities of the future seemed so laughable.

Ann Marlowe

#3. The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn't.

Ann Marlowe

#4. We got through it. Haven made excuses for me to friends, and made an appointment with a terrific doctor, who put me on Effexor, 150 milligrams a day, enough to get my brain straightened out.

Tyler Hamilton

#5. Can you admit on here that you have an affliction for millions of other people to see? Then that is great and a huge step towards your recovery.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#6. Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.

Robert Greene

#7. Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

Michael Moore

#8. Slowly, inch by inch, I felt myself recovering. After a few weeks, the darkness began to recede; my appetite for life returned. Haven was wonderful; she understood and nursed me through these weeks until I felt strong enough to go out in public, to get on my bike again.

Tyler Hamilton

#9. That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.

Norah Vincent

#10. I have suffered pains and torture of all natures. I have heard many say, "I am a survivor." I am not in a boat in a sea of torture awaiting to be rescued. I am a Conqueror, I am a Victor ...
I am one with myself.
I AM FREE!

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#11. You are a warrior in a dark forest, with no compass and are unable to tell who the actual enemy is, So you never feel safe ..

Anonymous

#12. If we are serious about these big problems, we have got to see that the solutions begin and end with ourselves. Thus we put an end to our habit of oversimplification. If we want to stop the impoverishment of land and people, we ourselves must be prepared to become poorer. If

Wendell Berry

#13. Rising from the ashes, I am born again,
powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain.

Shannon Perry

#14. Light existed all along. Of course it did. Who says it didn't because I couldn't see it?

Gillian Marchenko

#15. Mental illness is not a choice, but recovery is." - Anonymous

Omar J. Dames Sr.

#16. This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself.

Norah Vincent

#17. The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

Patricia Deegan

#18. It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

Steven Kassels

#19. Recovery is not so much a dream at it is a plan.

Carolyn Spring

#20. The vocation of pastor(s) has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

Eugene H. Peterson

#21. Killing yourself slowly is still killing yourself. Wanting to die is not the same as wanting to come home. Recovery is hard work. Not wanting to die is hard work.

Blythe Baird

#22. Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.

Mariel Hemingway

#23. The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings of her feelings of belonging, of safety and of competence to be in the world.

Carol Lee

#24. Sometimes I think everything I touch turns into a Page Six item.

Jay McInerney

#25. Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates of recovery from severe mental illness have not improved despite the availability of apparently effective therapies such as antipsychotic drugs.

Richard Bentall