Phyllis Logan Quotes

My three best friends get me through everything: I need cute jeans, my kids are driving me crazy, I'm throwing a party, whatever. They keep me dialed in.

Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.

If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.

As a carer for my disabled son, I understand just how hard caring is, at the best of times. I know how important it is for families to get the support they need.

You need community support. You're pretty defeated when you're laid low with a mental illness. It's a frightening place to be, and to get up and be able to stand and to move forward and to start functioning again, you need so much support. You need to feel you're not alone.

I've got a really tight group of friends from university and school who help me forget what I do and keep me grounded.

When you're on campus, you go through a lot of hard times and you need someone to talk to.

I think you have to feel your best by yourself. I do think it's important to have a solid friend that you can turn to, though - one that you can vent to.

I am fortunate that I have a good support network who I felt I could say, 'Hey, I need to find out why I am speaking like this,' and they could find out who I needed to speak to.

If there is something on your mind that you're worried about, it is so important to have friends you can depend on and talk to in times of need.

If we could end the old fashioned idea that feeling down is something to be ashamed of, something that you shouldn't burden others with, we would make our society a much happier and healthier place.

When things get tough, you should seek out someone like a coach or friend or family member to talk things through with.

I have a good family. I have good friends. I have people that actually care about my wellbeing as opposed to just work and just need me for work or whatever. Like, people that genuinely look out for me and my health, knowing how much work I put in.

I just want to send a message to my fans saying that it's OK to admit that you need help, and it doesn't make you weak.

I get depressed pretty easily but have found the best way to combat it is to surround yourself with people you can talk openly with about it.

It is important to feel the support of my family. Mentally, I can get away from everything that is football when I come home to be with them. Yes, work is a pleasure, but there will always be family.

If I texted somebody that I was having a down day, in seconds I would have somebody either call me or show up at my door.

I don't feel much pressure at all. I have great family support, and they take a lot of pressure off me. They help to control media and public interest.

Some people don't necessarily have family helping them or anyone, even friends, that care enough to help.

If you don't have the love and support of your family, you need to find someone out there who you can confide in and share your concerns and worries with. And someone who can lift your spirits and make you feel valuable and strong and powerful.

Thankfully, I've got great support around me to keep my feet on the floor.

But I can't stress enough how much talking helps. I was so reluctant at first; I didn't think it would help. But even if there's no answer to your troubles, they will seem so much smaller once they leave your head.

I've always been an advocate for mental health.

Yes, this is our job, but when we're having rough days and when we're going through tough times, we can all come to the gym and come to the locker room and let everything out.

Everyone who comes to my show has their own struggles. There's so many people dealing with so many things; I love that I get to be part of their healing process by making them laugh.