Pete Rozelle Quotes

Sometimes getting something off your chest to someone else is an important step in coping - so you know that you're not alone, you're not failing, and that it is perfectly normal to feel overwhelmed or sad at times. Everybody does.

Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves.

When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.

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 cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.

Sometimes my past is extraordinarily heavy. That's when I scream and cry until I feel like I can breathe again.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

It can feel like your whole world is caving in on you, and if you don't speak about it, it gets worse. You have to talk about your problems.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

In order to be a good emergency contact, you need a lot of friend-patience and empathy. Often, this comes from personal experience with anxiety, trauma, and depression.

Got an issue, get a tissue.

Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,'' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy.

Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.

Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot of it, though I didn't need to. I would peek, and then think, oh OK, I can see that.

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

When you feel bad, find a person to talk to and cry with, to tell of your anger and other helpless feelings.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.

I started cooking out of middle school depression.