Quotes About Support

She'd choose awkward over ignored. "What do you wish people would say?" I ask. Julie thinks about this. "They can say, 'I'm so sorry.' They can say, 'How can I be helpful?' Or 'I feel so helpless but I care about you.'" She shifts on the couch, her thinner frame not quite filling out her clothes.

Prea multi p?rinti le fac viata grea copiilor încercând, cu înver?unare, sa le-o fac? u?oar?.

Sitting-with-you-in-your-pain is one of the rare experiences that people get in the protected space of a therapy room, but it's very hard to give or get outside of it—even for Jen, who is a therapist.

But those underreported numbers are still high. In any given year, some thirty million American adults are sitting on clinicians' couches, and the United States isn't even the world leader in therapy. (Fun fact: the countries with the most therapists per capita are, in descending order, Argentina, Austria, Australia, France, Canada, Switzerland, Iceland, and the United States.)

We grow in connection with others. Everyone needs to hear that other person's voice saying, I believe in you. I can see possibilities that you might not see quite yet. I imagine that something different can happen, in some form or another. In therapy we say, Let's edit your story.

To be sure, these comments are meant to comfort, but they're also a way of protecting the speakers from the uncomfortable feelings that somebody else's bad situation stirs up. Platitudes like these make a terrible circumstance more palatable for the person saying the words but leave the person experiencing the adversity feeling angry and alone.

You do good mothering.

But Rose has been my sister. I think that's heroic.

Millie, honey, Josh is gone." Millie

Isaiah 41:10: "Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

Friendships take just as much TLC as romantic relationships.

The effects of untreated mental health issues ripple throughout families for generations.

There's such a stigma attached to mental illness that people are often reluctant to talk about it, or admit that they, or someone they love, needs help.

Man and wife, realist and dreamer ... n truth they were more than one flesh, they had formed and sustained each other, they had ONE STORY between them and it wasn't at all easy for me or my brother to inhabit it.

Wir lachen gemeinsam, weil wir lange genug allein geweint haben.

Was nützt einem ein Vater? Er drängt dich dazu auszufliegen, schubst dich aus dem Nest und rät dir, die Flügel zu benutzen, weil du sonst zu Boden stürzt.

Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When he's done good and made things easy for everybody? That ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest……and he can't believe in himself because the world's whipped him so!

If I go to hell for this—" "I'll be there as well. I'll dance with you," he promised.

And what about you, Frannie? he wanted to ask. Who will save you?

I've always believed that dreams were meant to be shared. Where's the joy in reaching for something if you have no one to see you capture it?

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

Instant availability without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.

If you have no more happiness to give: Give me your pain.

In fact, an alarming percentage of deaf children graduate high school with a third-grade reading ability.