Quotes About Recovery

When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.

The land of burnout is not a place I ever want to go back to.

It's not until after you've been hit by a car and landed all right that the fear kicks in.

I went to one AA meeting and I got asked for an autograph.

I grew up around a lot of aggressive guys. My parents used to take me to AA meetings when I was very young. So I know aggression, I know insanity.

I remember being very young and going to AA meetings with my father in Brooklyn. I thought it was fun because they served hot chocolate and cookies.

I love going to my AA meetings and dont think I will ever stop.

Every member of my family was displaced by Katrina.

There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.

I have to have eight hours a night. I feel that everything falls apart if you don't sleep. If I spend four hours memorizing dialogue but don't sleep, then the next day I will not be able to stand in front of the camera and say my lines. For me, sleep is the number one thing.

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

Sports men and women need hip replacements. It was all those years of classical ballet and forcing turn-outs. It can be quite detrimental to your body.

Grief is like mending a knee. You can mend the knee and make it function, but the knee never actually heals.

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

It's a mental battle trying to come back from injuries and I don't feel like having that mental battle with myself.

Everyone had a loss or lost something during COVID. I allowed myself to take long baths, watch cheesy movies, and just tried to slow down, and I made sure to maintain my mental health.

We must start 24/7 ERs dedicated to addiction and mental health.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.

I know what mental illness looks like, and I know that if a person is not ready to get help, they won't.

I'm not a doctor, but I would assume that anything that you're doing that's harming you, and you can't stop doing it, is a sign of mental illness.

Eating was my only way of controlling my life, or so I thought. When you are addicted or suffering from a mental illness, you think you're in complete control. But the opposite is true. You are, in fact, completely out of control.

Living with mental illness is not a choice and can lead to debilitating circumstances.