He doesn't even like me. I let the thought roll around in my head. Anything I feel during that time gets shoved into the vault with the ten-foot-thick door slamming as soon as it goes in, just in case...

When things go wrong, just do your best to make it through the day and you'll be okay in a short time.

How is that for some people drinking is a short - term loan on the spirit, but for others a heavy mortgage on the soul?

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.

I'll be fine. I'm always fine.

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

I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.

Sometimes I get such paranoia that I refresh and wait and wait on the same page until I get an answer???Why??I'm not crazy,...

Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.

Why can't I do it?" {Isabel} asked…"Do what?" "Just forget about everything. Just go somewhere and get smashed and pretend like there are no problems or consequences. I know why. Because there are...

If your mental health is sound, then when disturbances come, you will have some distress but quickly recover.

Balancing time you spend with or without people is crucial for mental health.

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...

It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels. Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means...

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...

An addict and a non-addict don't think the same - their brains are wired completely differently. Only an addict can help another addict through recovery.

You who understand what a human mind can be, how can you bear it? I don't have the hundredth part of your mind and there are days when I think I'll go mad. I can feel it. Or hear it. It's more like...

If I had an ear to confide in I would cry among my treasured friends But who do you know that stops that long to help another carry on The world moves fast and it would rather pass you by than to stop...

However, if you do not believe your clients, they may sense your doubt and never fully trust you. As Bruce Goderez {1986}, director of a PTSD inpatient unit says, "It is important for the clinician...

The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind

Whoever is planning a nuclear war or seriously thinking about using nuclear weapons must directly be taken to a mental hospital! Mad people are mentally sick and they only need a medical treatment!...

I again invoke my favorite analogy for eating disorders: abusive lovers. And what do you do when someone is in an abusive relationship? You don't allow visitation rights, weekly dates. You don't put...

Sometimes, when you want to help a broken person, your attempts only remind them of their missing pieces.

I meant what I said to Embryo about drugs. We don't mix. What it comes down to for me is I have a hard enough time keeping control over my brain without something else getting in the way.

Debbie Downer was one of the few sketches where I broke, and I remember watching Horatio Sanz laugh so hard that tears squirted out of his eyes. I still believe that sketch may be a cure for low-level...

No one stays the same, David. Everything you are is a direct result of something that's affected you in your past, whether it was horrible or wonderful - no one has the right to destroy themselves...

Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now? Easy - I'd be at home, medicating myself into a monotone. Drowning my sorrows in...

If each psychology student could help one patient rather than formatting their thesis every semester, then millions of sufferers would benefit each year.

Being a positive person doesn't mean you never have negative thoughts. It just means you don't allow them space to take root and grow to control your life.

My life is so bad that it's worse than it really is.