Quotes About Support

Be kind to yourself.

If you're feeling mentally unwell, treat yourself as you would a physical problem

You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for having cancer or cardiovascular disease or a car accident. So what should we do? Talk. Listen. Encourage talking. Encourage listening. Keep adding to the conversation. Stay on the lookout for those wanting to join in the conversation.

If pills work for you it doesn't really matter if this is to do with serotonin or another process or anything else.- keep taking them. Hell, if licking wallpaper does it for you, do that. I am not anti pill. I am pro anything that works and I know pill do work for a lot of people.

A million people a year kill themselves. Between ten and twenty million people a year try to. Worldwide, men are over three times more likely to kill themselves than women.

There is no right or wrong way to have depression, or to have a panic attack, or to feel suicidal.

And I knew there was one rule that held fast across the universe: if you wanted to get someone on your side, what you really had to do was relieve their pain.

She filled in the blanks that worry and darkness had left in its wake. She was my mind-double. My life-sitter. My literal other half when half of me had gone. She covered for me, waiting patiently like a war wife, during my absence from myself.

A true friend is rare a true friend is the best a true friend is needed like east needs west.

I began to wonder if it was a bad thing to dwell on problems. But then I remembered that it is precisely not talking about problems that is itself a problem. It's what causes people to break down in their office or classroom. It's what fills up addiction units and hospitals and raises suicide figures.

It's okay to let people find you. You don't have to spread yourself so thin you become invisible. You don't have to always be the person reaching out. You can sometimes allow yourself to be reached. As the great writer Anne Lamott puts it: "Lighthouses don't go running all over an island for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

And I didn't really understand those issues until I knew he was gay, but they say sibling rivalry isn't about siblings but parents, and I always felt my parents just encouraged his dreams a bit more.

Pain, of any kind, is a very isolating experience.

You are not the only one with sorrows in this world. Don't hoard them like they are precious. There is always plenty of them to go around.

The point of love was to help you survive.

I love you," she said. And I knew the point of love right then. The point of love was to help you survive.

And I stood up, again to help when I was supposed to hurt.

It is lonely, this world, without a friend.

I soon discovered the act of talking is in itself a therapy. Where talk exists, so does hope.

there are millions going through an equivalent experience at any one time.

To all the health workers. And the care workers. Thank you.

Once we take our personal unseen experiences and make them seen, we help others, and even ourselves, to understand what we are going through.

I knew there was one rule that held fast across the universe: if you wanted to get someone on your side what you really had to do was relieve their pain.

Sometimes just to say you're truth out loud is enough to find others like you