I recommend that people try new stuff or take new fitness classes all the time. It's important to mix up your routine, not only for your body, but also for your mental state.

I was being very bad because I didn't know how to express myself. Music gave me an outlet to express myself and channel that anger.

I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what's going...

It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions - especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy,...

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills

Sometimes I didn't think the world was worth it. Saving. Sometimes I didn't think I was worth it either.

I think happy thoughts and feel happy things and I do not let myself near the swirling black edges of the hole that is my soul when I look at them.

Share, share, share your experience, feelings, anxiety.

Veeva should count her blessings. Three years ago it was cocaine and a year ago it was crack and lemme tell you, that stuff you got to have. You do anything for that high. He laughed again, savoring...

I almost wish I had cancer. Then I'd either beat it or die from it. But my disease, even if successfully treated, will never go away. And it might not kill me. But it will hang over me like the blade...

The most comfortable place for a tired mind is in the lap of a book.

I felt a lunatic's laugh welling up inside me.

A bind is when you're quadriplegic, suicidal about that and unable to persuade your best friend to murder you.

Suicide is not a choice, it is what is left when everything else fails.

HC: You think I shall be different tomorrow? {about suicide}...

Chronic pain shatters productive lives. Chronic pain almost always is accompanied by depression, anxiety, frustration, fatigue, isolation, and lowered self - esteem.

I made so many promises when I arrived here. Now I'm not so sure. Now I'm worried. Now my mind is a traitor because my thoughts crawl out of bed every morning with darting eyes and sweating palms and...

The trauma said, 'Don't write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.'

If you don't have anything good to say to yourself, don't say anything at all

Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing.

You go to bed different... tossing and turning is the norm... you wake to a sunny day but clouds follow you wherever you go. You wonder if you are strong enough to climb out of the depression you are...

Days passed in a grey fog. I was becalmed. Without energy, without hope, with no sight of land, I could remember feeling better but I somehow couldn't believe in it. There was nothing but this.

I wonder, with all the flowers in the garden, how many of them ever think of hanging themselves with the garden hose, if ever they can.

Survivors who don't stand up for themselves often develop physical and emotional illnesses. Many become depressed because they feel so hopeless and helpless about being able to change their lives....

I start to get the feeling that something is really wrong. Like all the drugs put together – the lithium, the Prozac, the desipramine, and Desyrel that I take to sleep at night – can no longer...

The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can't get away from it. Not ever.

Just like sweeping the streets, sweep the unnecessary things from your mind too; keep your mind clean!

Nothing much bothered you for a while and you kept walking like a silhouette through this town, saying hi's and goodbyes, acting polite at all times. But there is no fire in your heart; you are not...

I am flagrantly nuts. I can say this because I am a doctor and I know about these things.