Brittany Snow Quotes

The most evil and insidious thing about mental illness is that it isolates us and makes us feel so different that we think no one can possibly relate.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

I don't think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea - which can be very persistent and irritating - that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state.

When I was diagnosed, I believed my illness would be my great, lifelong weakness. Bipolar disorder was to be my impenetrable prison, and I would be locked up with it in a castle Princess Toadstool style. Thinking there was no way out, I let it consume me.

I'm not some weirdo depressed daughter that's afraid of the world - that locks herself in her room all day.

Loneliness is a huge issue for both individuals and for society. It's taken a long time for the issue to be treated seriously and for us to begin to understand the impact it can have.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

A lot of times, people think that it doesn't make sense for people to be depressed when they have everything, a loving husband, a successful career, fame and fortune. I wanted to make this point that profound despair can strike anybody.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.

If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.

Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the stigma is so great that they don't come forward.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

I'm always wearing Spanx, eating ice cream and feeling a bit lonely.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.

I'd just like to be able to walk outside as everyone does and enjoy time with my friends, not feel bad for not wanting to take a picture.

Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.

I never got to go to prom. I never went to regular school. I ate lunch by myself.

A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame.

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

I've had a mental illness for nearly half my life, and I can no longer imagine myself without it. It seems less like something that happened to me than like part of who I am; some days, it is the thing about me, but it is always at least a thing about me.

When I read that nobody should ever feel ashamed to be alone or to be in a crowd, I realized that I often felt ashamed of both of those things.

There's such a stigma around mental illness, and this idea that you're going to come off as disturbed or weak somehow by being open about these things. I've never felt embarrassed or shy talking about it; it's such an integral part of my life.

I was in a mental hospital. That's all I wanna say. I don't wanna say anything more.