Julie Roberts Quotes

My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught.

Having been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998, and I am continually amazed by the level of support I receive from individuals across the country.

MS is terrible for anybody, and all of the stories are important.

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy.

Reality is I'm sick all the time.

I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

I never found out until I went into treatment that I was bipolar.

You become aware of an illness by understanding yourself and understanding the meaning that that illness has in your own life, symbolically and, more importantly, quite literally.

I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves.

Five years ago we were working on a new album when my health began failing.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient for a husband. It's having me for a husband. I happen to be a Parkinson's patient.

I returned to upstate NY where I just laid in bed for days with a fever that just wouldn't go away. After more of this, I grew increasingly sure that this was not simply the flu!

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever.

When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it - MS overall, as a subject, as a disease - there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.

I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.

About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.

I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.

I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.