Quotes About Recovery

Sometimes you have to let your life fall apart and let it come back together on its own and learn to care for yourself in a different way.

There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.

War affects people in different ways.

Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.

If you're running on fumes, you get to a point of diminishing results. Get some rest.

My school almost lost its accreditation. If that had happened, my diploma wouldn't have been worth anything.

If you drop a player when his form dips, sometimes it never quite comes back.

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.

Everyone knows my story and lots of people have been disappointed in my deterioration as a man. But they can see I'm trying to get better.

When you get disappointments, you bounce back.

I really think the disease aspect gets lost when you're talking about alcoholism and addiction; it's not like you're battling leukemia or a heart problem; it is that.

I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world.

When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it.

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

Anorexia is a real disease. The choice you do have is asking for help.

The list of fun and easily-fixed brain diseases is very short.

I don't like rehabilitating myself. It is one of the things I dislike.

I was never diagnosed with an eating disorder but I definitely had a difficult relationship with food.

You can move past your eating disorder and not let it have control over your life anymore.

Honestly, I never thought I would ever tell anyone that I had an eating disorder. It was my deepest, darkest secret.

The secret is to nip any mental disorder in the bud. As soon as you're not feeling yourself, reach out and get some help because you can quickly get better. If you get stuck in it, it's so hard to get out.

There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.