Quotes About Recovery

to someone who is depressed, everything is about depression.

You see, down here, where life hangs heavy like a suffocating cloak, I can't remember that I've ever felt any other way. I need to be reminded that there are reasons in the world to hold on, even if I have forgotten them; I tell myself if I can just hold on I will remember them, these reasons, they will come back to me.

In some ways therapists have it harder than surgeons, who can often correct the issue with one operation. There's no quick fix for emotional trauma.

My eyes! I'm blind!

My side felt a lot better when Nora called me at noon the next day. My nice policeman wants to see you, she said. How do you feel? Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober. I pushed Asta out of the way and got up.

Gilbert put down the magazine he was looking at and politely said he hoped I was recovering from my injury. I said I was. I've never been hurt, really hurt, he went on, that I can remember. I've tried hurting myself, of course, but that's not the same thing. It just made me uncomfortable and irritable and sweat a lot. That's pretty much the same thing, I said.

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DMV OFFICER: OK, make a left turn here. TEST TAKER: Whoops. DMV OFFICER: (Writes something on clipboard.) TEST TAKER: Does that mean I fail the test? DMV OFFICER: Nah, she's getting back up. You just clipped her.

Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.

He's turned inside out, and is with the Sudanese to find out how to become right again.

I knelt down, trying to put the many pieces of the letter back together again. It was impossible. I dumped the pieces of the letter in the trash, wishing my life would end. I truly believed, at that moment, that death would be better than my prospects for any kind of happiness. I was nothing but an "It.

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There are times in everyone's life when loss strikes. When one's heart breaks. And there are times when you truly feel as though you have no heart left, so shattered is it.

And it was a good thing. Because despite all the unsettling things that his mind had been doing while he was here, the ability to be hugged or have your hand clenched by another without flinching, that simple act, which just about everyone else took for granted, had brought Decker a bit closer to the person he had once been. Before he had died on a football field and woken up as someone else entirely.

But don't sit here and think that you're cured, because that's the biggest load of crap I've ever heard. People who want to get better, they work at it. They don't lie to themselves and everyone else. They don't sit on their ass and sink deeper into a pathetic existence while denying anything's wrong at all. They have balls not bullshit. And I'm pretty much fed up with yours.

You think I haven't tried to quit?

For the loss of Chung-Cha. And she was scared. "Hey, guys, come on in," said Julie warmly. Her guardian, Jerome Cassidy, had recovered from his injuries at the hands of

He had walked away, head down, feet shuffling, looking very much like a young man who had lost everything of value in his life.

Because you're trying to take something away from yourself that was taken away from them without their consent." "I've

There is no such thing as a social crack user.

Each sober breath you draw is an act of grace, my friend said. You are making amends every day you do not use. I found enough comfort in what he said to forgive myself…

The attitude that depression is necessary strikes me as destructive, inhuman, and victimizing.

Remember that as the drug begins to work, you will feel less suicidal.

It can work the other way as well. I have worked with many depressed patients who were still stuck after I had tried numerous psychotherapeutic interventions. When I prescribed an antidepressant medication, many of these patients started to turn the corner, and the psychotherapy began to work better. It seemed as if the medication really did help them change their negative thinking patterns as they recovered from the depression.