Roseanne Barr Quotes

I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years.

Nothing good could ever have come of my life if I hadn't been able to get therapy and overcome my addictions.

I was in therapy as a child and definitely think that therapy is a very useful tool.

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity.

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

I've been in therapy my whole life.

I've had a lot of therapy in my life.

We live in a world where mental health is real. Emotional health is real, and people feel like no one cares.

I'm not afraid to admit I have therapy. It's nothing to be ashamed of, and it really does help.

You can't fix yourself out of a mental health issue. You can't wake up and say, 'Today I'm not being depressed!' It's a process to get well, but there is recovery.

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children.

This is really America in therapy, people trying to get themselves together and be whole.

If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression. It was becoming worse. And I was being treated for it with anti-depressants.

I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.

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.

You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well.

My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

I'm focusing on healing lives and teaching people that they can heal - giving them tools to heal.

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

I'm in therapy, and I think everyone should be.