Quotes About Recovery

She could scarcely move at all. Her muscles felt impossibly weak. Her limbs were gummy worms. She looked at her hands. Looked at her mother. "Is that what happened to my manicure? It's gone because I've been asleep for a year? A whole freaking year? That's impossible." It was the kind of thing people passed around on the Internet—Woman Sleeps for a Year, Wakes Up Angry About Manicure.

Based on the reading she'd done about rape trauma, Margie knew she wasn't crazy, but suffering from PTSD.

Methylprednisolone?

The cure for anything is salt water—sweat, tears, or the salt sea. —Isak Dinesen

Everyone had pain. But not everyone had to stay hidden behind it.

walking again. But being inconspicuous on

It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact.

Although I felt very weak, I did not feel ill; and strength, one always fancies, is a thing that may be picked up when we please.

I believe now that I was exposed too early to goodness and that I never recovered.

Dopo una tragedia, molti dei superstiti si sentono perduti.

That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him." "I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.

Time heals … if you let it. Big if.

Over the years, I've gotten better and better at returning from mental and physical exhaustion…The fighter who can recover in the thirty seconds between rounds…will have a huge advantage over the guy who is still huffing and puffing, mentally or physically, from the last battle.

In your performance training, the first step to mastering the zone is to practice the ebb and flow of stress and recovery. This should involve interval training

Interval work is a critical building block to becoming a consistent long-term performer. If you spend a few months practicing stress and recovery in your everyday life, you'll lay the physiological foundation for becoming a resilient, dependable pressure player. The next step is to create your trigger for the zone.

One idea I taught was the importance of regaining presence and clarity of mind after making a serious error.

He ended up shuttered in his house, with no friends, doing drugs alone for days on end and wondering whether he should kill himself just as his father had. "My life was total hell," he says. Finally he went to a therapist, who suggested he go to Alcoholics Anonymous. He attended a meeting and started sobbing. Someone gave him a hug and told him he wasn't alone. "That's when life really began for me," he says. He says he's been sober ever since.

a first severe episode of depression: people who struggle to recover take some pride in their ability to have overcome such a dismal time. If a second severe episode hits, it can be much worse. "Depression is the most difficult when people get better and then get sick again," says the psychiatrist Nassir Ghaemi.

No matter how grim things may seem, they always get better.

Once lost, they are rarely found.

doing this since 1976! And what they've found so far in these preliminary studies is that pollutants are really destructive. The lakes get gross. Life in them ceases. It took about eight years to make this happen in one of them, everything carefully measured and controlled all the while. Now the scientists are slowly reversing the process. But it will take hundreds of years for the lakes to recover. They think.

Amnesia: The condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor to have sex again.