Josh Thomas Quotes

The biggest advice I can give loved ones who are supporting someone navigating a newly diagnosed mental illness is patience, patience, and patience.

We all go through sad times, but I was brought up to be positive.

Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.

It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.

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.

I couldn't have made it without knowing how to use laughter to get from one day to the next.

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

Big things, a real crisis, I think I'm pretty good, but this little thing will just wallop me. I think I'm managing depression better now: when the mood comes, I just try and sit it out.

I've used my sense of humor as a coping tool. It's gotten me through a lot of challenging times.

We can give space to someone's depression. We can love them; we can honor - we can just eat some noodles, we can watch some movies, whatever it is. We can just sit and not talk. That's real stuff. It's a real - I don't know if you call it a disorder, a disease, but it's happening, and we don't need to coach people through with ideologies.

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.

I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

Why should you care for a woman like me? I'm always nervous or sick, or sad or too gay.

Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.

I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

It's a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society - in many ways - tells us that suffering is wrong. If it's our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we're taught to put them away somewhere so we don't have to see it.

As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

I know firsthand how critical support systems are.

Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

I don't look at her like she's a bad girl. She just misunderstood sometime, she's a little troubled, she's a little dysfunctional. She's a survivor.

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression.