Raheem Sterling Quotes

I still have highs and lows, maybe I don't cry salty tears as much.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.

There are times when I'm super-overwhelmed, and everything feels like it's hitting me in the face at once, but I think what's keeping me calm, and who I am by staying true to myself, is my whole family being so supportive and keeping me grounded. They treat me the exact same way they treated me years and years ago.

I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything.

Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.

Many people are worried about my mental health. But as I've said many times, we're stronger than we think we are.

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

I want to keep my sanity.

I don't need a good skate to make everything OK.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.

At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy.

Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

For many years when I was younger, I let negative things that people said about me affect my life. What I've learned is that it's really important to find the right support network, focus on the positive things in your life and quiet that negative voice in your head.

My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it.

My problems aren't so different from anybody else.

One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.

People can be cruel, but that doesn't mean you have to take it home, wrap yourself up in it and wear it.

All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.

Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

My parents have been very supportive, in fact, it was my mother who identified that what I was going through was actually depression. My family and friends never let me feel as if something was wrong with me. They made me feel that what I was going through was okay. They supported my decision to take medication for depression.