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Quotes About Recovery

If pills work for you it doesn't really matter if this is to do with serotonin or another process or anything else.- keep taking them. Hell, if licking wallpaper does it for you, do that. I am not anti pill. I am pro anything that works and I know pill do work for a lot of people.
~ Matt Haig
It never rains forever. And know that, however wet you get, you are not the rain. You are not the bad feelings in your head. You are the person experiencing the storm. The storm may knock you off your feet. But you will stand again. Hold on.
~ Matt Haig
depression is a disease of thoughts.
~ Matt Haig
Time disproves the lies depression tells.
~ Matt Haig
Now, these were wounds I could have healed with a single thought. Just to feel pain, sometimes, was enough to cancel it.
~ Matt Haig
IT'S A WEIRD thing, depression. Even now, writing this with a good distance of fourteen years from my lowest point, I haven't fully escaped.
~ Matt Haig
Don't worry about the time you lose to despair. The time you will have afterwards has just doubled its value.
~ Matt Haig
But by not taking it, I became very in tune with myself. This helped me know what exactly made me feel better (exercise, sunshine, sleep, intense conversation, etc.) and this alertness, an alertness I know from myself and others can be lost via pills, eventually helped me build myself back up from scratch. If I had been dulled or felt that otherness meds can make you feel, things might have been harder.
~ Matt Haig
A reminder for the tough times One day this will be over. And we will be grateful for life in ways we never felt possible before.
~ Matt Haig
Si existe una manera de salir, una salida que no sea la muerte en sí, entonces el camino es a través de las palabras. Pero más que para salir de la mente por completo, las palabras nos ayudan a salir de una mente, y nos proporcionan las piezas para construir otra, similar pero mejor.
~ Matt Haig
I regret my financial mismanagement.
~ Matt Haig
Illness has a lot to teach wellness.
~ Matt Haig
I hit rock bottom, but I found something solid there.
~ Matt Haig
I hit rock bottom and found something solid there.
~ Matt Haig
You lose your job, then more shit happens.
~ Matt Haig
And it was different because she was alive, when she had so nearly been dead. And because that had been her choice. A choice to live.
~ Matt Haig
When you have a bout of mental illness for the first time, you imagine this is how your life is going to be for ever. You will have depression punctuated by panic attacks and that is how things will stay. And that was terrifying. The claustrophobia of it. There seemed no way out.
~ Matt Haig
Invoking the name of Al Gaddafi cured my blue screen of death
~ Unknown
It never fails," Montrose said. "No matter what they do to you, afterwards it's like nothing happened. You're supposed to just be grateful you're still breathing.
~ Unknown
The loser is here supposed to be a woman, who will more passionately grieve for her loss, and rejoice in finding what she had lost, than perhaps a man would do, and therefore it the better serves the purpose of the parable. She
~ Matthew Henry
Observe, he calls it his sheep, though a stray, a wandering sheep. He has a right to it (all souls are mine), and he will claim his own, and recover his right; therefore he looks after it himself: I have found it; he did not send a servant, but his own Son, the great and good Shepherd, who will find what he seeks, and will be found of those that seek him not.
~ Matthew Henry
We sent her Lady's Mantle tincture, which she applied externally on the ear and took internally as well. The eardrum sealed up
~ Unknown
In neurasthenia the person is exhausted from stimulation. They do not have the reserves to recover easily from mental or physical exertion.
~ Unknown
On s'imagine a priori que la santé devrait influer considérablement sur le bonheur et qu'il est difficile d'être heureux quand on est frappé d'une maladie grave et contraint d'être hospitalisé. Mais il s'avère que ce n'est pas le cas, et que, même dans ces conditions, on retrouve vite le niveau de bonheur qui était le sien avant la maladie.
~ Matthieu Ricard