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#1

“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

tags: depression, mental-disorders, mental-illness, my-heart-and-other-black-holes, sadness

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#2

“If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.”
― Brené Brown

tags: anxiety, authenticity, depression, mental-illness

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#3

“Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: beliefs, boyfriends, cheaters, crisis, delusions, fake-christians, falling-apart, games, girlfriends, insanity, lies, men, mental-disorders, relationships, sisters, stalkers, wrong-diagnosis

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#4

“Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.

Master yourself, and become king of the world around you. Let no odds, chastisement, exile, doubt, fear, or ANY mental virii prevent you from accomplishing your dreams. Never be a victim of life; be it's conqueror.”
― Mike Norton

tags: accomplish, can-t, chastisement, conqueror, discouragement, disorder, doubt, dream, empowerment, exile, fear, impossible, king, master, mental, mind, possibility, reality, relative, resilience, truth, victim, virii, virus, viruses, world

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#5

“Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: anger, communication, compassion, competition, cruelty, fake, fake-christians, family-members, games, hatred, hurting-people, jealousy, listening, mental-disorders, no-communication, no-talking, passive-agressive-behavior, pity, reaching-out, sisters, talking, understanding

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#6

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: attitude, awareness, disorders, dreams, enlightenment, faults, focus, forgetting, future, goals, here, here-and-now, identity, issues, journeys, letting-go, life, life-lessons, living, memories, mental-illness, now, pain, past, planning, present, present-moment, realism, regrets, sanity, self-awareness, unresolved

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#7

“You survived by seizing every tiny drop of love you could find anywhere, and milking it, relishing it, for all it was worth. And as you grew up, you sought love, anywhere you could find it, whether it was a teacher or a coach or a friend or a friend's parents. You sought those tiny droplets of love, basking in them when you found them. They sustained you. For all these years, you've lived under the illusion that somehow, you made it because you were tough enough to overpower the abuse, the hatred, the hard knocks of life. But really you made it because love is so powerful that tiny little doses of it are enough to overcome the pain of the worst things life can dish out. Toughness was a faulty coping mechanism you devised to get by. But, in reality, it has been your ability to never give up, to keep seeking love, and your resourcefulness to make that love last long enough to sustain you. That is what has gotten you by.”
― Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

tags: borderline-personality-disorder, bpd, childhood-trauma, inspirational, love, mental-illness

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#8

“Why do I take a blade and slash my arms? Why do I drink myself into a stupor? Why do I swallow bottles of pills and end up in A&E having my stomach pumped? Am I seeking attention? Showing off? The pain of the cuts releases the mental pain of the memories, but the pain of healing lasts weeks. After every self-harming or overdosing incident I run the risk of being sectioned and returned to a psychiatric institution, a harrowing prospect I would not recommend to anyone.
So, why do I do it? I don't. If I had power over the alters, I'd stop them. I don't have that power. When they are out, they're out. I experience blank spells and lose time, consciousness, dignity. If I, Alice Jamieson, wanted attention, I would have completed my PhD and started to climb the academic career ladder. Flaunting the label 'doctor' is more attention-grabbing that lying drained of hope in hospital with steri-strips up your arms and the vile taste of liquid charcoal absorbing the chemicals in your stomach.
In most things we do, we anticipate some reward or payment. We study for status and to get better jobs; we work for money; our children are little mirrors of our social standing; the charity donation and trip to Oxfam make us feel good. Every kindness carries the potential gift of a responding kindness: you reap what you sow. There is no advantage in my harming myself; no reason for me to invent delusional memories of incest and ritual abuse. There is nothing to be gained in an A&E department.”
― Alice Jamieson, Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind

tags: abuse, alcohol, alcoholic, alter-personalities, alters, attention, cutting, dissociation, dissociative, dissociative-identity-disorder, emergency, healing, incest, memories, mental-health, mental-illness, multiple-personality-disorder, overdose, pain, psychiatric, psychological, ritual-abuse, self-harm, split-personality, suicide-attempt, survivor, trauma, victim

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#9

“People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them and be blinded to all the good your heart has to offer. They look no further than what they want to see. Unfortunately, most of them remain a victim throughout their life.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: anger, ego, games, hurts, lack-of-communication, male-ego, mental-disorders, narcissistic, no-ownership, no-responsibility, paranoia, self-absorbed, trust-issues, victims

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#10

“To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.”
― Andrei Lankov

tags: emotional-abuse, emotional-neglect, mental-disorder-bias, mental-disorders, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, stigma, suffering, suffering-cruelty, suffering-quote, violence

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#11

“Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It's like sitting in a boat and neither one has an oar to row the other to shore. You can meet your mirror image in life, but that doesn't mean you should marry him.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: giving-up, losing-faith, mental-disorders, relationships, truth

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#12

“What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces an acid that eats away at you from the inside, until all that's less is a scary hollowness. Your mind fills with dark thoughts; you become convinced that your friends secretly hate you, you're worthless, and then there's no hope. I never got so low as to consider ending it all, but I understand how that can happen to some people. Depression simply hurts too much.”
― Tyler Hamilton

tags: acid, depressed, depression, depression-quotes, empathy, emptiness, emptiness-in-heart, hopeless, hurt, mental-disorder, mental-health, mental-illness, mind, misunderstood, pain, poison, psychology, psychotherapy, suicidality, suicide, toxic, worthlessness

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#13

“Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

tags: bias, crazy, diagnosis, discrimination, explain, explanation, insanity, lunacy, mental-disorder, mental-health-stigma, mental-illness, mystery, prejudice, psychiatry, psychology-quotes, sane-and-insane, sanity, stereotype, stigma, understand

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