Quotes About Recovery

When I was younger, about 15, I suffered badly from depression.

Anyone who's suffered from panic attacks knows how frightening they are.

I had suffered a multitude of injuries, as most guys in the business do. Most of them came at the end of my career.

I had suffered from depression in my childhood.

I truly, truly suffered depression, to the deep core.

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

I have been suffering for so long and didn't even recognize it. I just stopped doing so many things that I used to love to do due to my pain.

I'm learning how to prevent my brain from getting worse than it is after suffering a career worth of concussions playing football.

I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster.

The best cure for a double-bogey is a toffee, or sugar - any type of sugar; I love my chocolate.

At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.

I was a real sugar junkie. I don't think I realised I was actually fully addicted to it.

My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help.

By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression.

The Tyne is at the bottom of my garden. When the river came up 16ft, 7ft of that went through my home. There wasnt only salmon in the Tyne - my three-piece suite was in there too. I had to be rescued. It was a year-and-a-half before we could move back in.

I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

If I've played on a Saturday I'll usually have Sunday and Monday off.

My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.