Quotes About Recovery

There is always the hope that spiritual forces will be released which will work toward repentance and recovery.

I had waited for the tears to stop before I called him, waited until my whole body was empty and dry, hard as a fist. But now I felt the sadness rising again in my chest.

If you want merits for your suffering and medals of honor for your affliction, find ways to heal.

After ten days, i was discharged from the hospital over the objections of my doctor, brought to the middlesex county jail for men, and kept in solitary confinement from February 1974 until May 1974.

The scars you can't see are the hardest to heal.

His arm pulled me up from the forest floor,

Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don't be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it's never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait.

Sorry, it was but a momentary lapse of sanity.

Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.

She would try then not to think too strenuously about her whole life. She would try to live one day at a time, like an alcoholic – drink, don't drink, drink. Perhaps she should take drugs.

You brought me to a sanitarium? Thinking of having me admitted?" "Fortunately for you, it's closed.

When are you coming back?" he'd demanded as he'd watched her throw her clothes into two suitcases and head for the door. "When you get some help with your drinking." He didn't need any help. He drank fine without it.

Those who were molested or beaten as children or teenagers might later be vulnerable to sexual abuse or violence, because their natural impulses to protect themselves and protest (physical and verbal) were extinguished. Expectation of hurtful treatment by others or one's own failed capabilities can stubbornly persist despite overwhelming evidence that such is no longer the case.

The first goal of trauma recovery should and must be to improve your quality of life on a daily basis.

The same is the case of men, that rise after calamities and misfortunes. For they are as men fallen out with the times; and think other men's harms, a redemption of their own sufferings.

After 2008, my brand of finance got a bad rap.

Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.

I'm a Bipolar 1, Rapid Cycler. So really easily, if I'm around people that are sick and are not medicated, and there's a lot of people going to AA that should be medicated that are really, truly mentally ill, then I end up being triggered.

You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again.

I am rarely injured.

Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, and yet so many Americans are left to fight this battle without the coverage, support, and resources they need.

Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.