Mariel Hemingway Quotes

Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.

I have mental illness in my family. I have a lot of compassion for those people.

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

Those who are not very good at understanding mental health issues are not going to know what other people are going through in depression. You have to kind of put yourself in somebody else's shoes.

In one way, I want to heal people.

If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

I think because I can be sad, and I can be lonely, my gift would be trying to help other people feel less lonely and less sad. Because that's what I understand.

Maybe what I'm trying to do is heal others. I think what we're trying to do in theater is heal someone.

I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives.

Americans with mental illness deserve our understanding and they deserve excellent medical care.

We see people talking to themselves all the time. We always have. Particularly if they're homeless people or at all questionable, there's a sense of, 'That guy's crazy!' I see that now with a much more empathetic eye.

All I can say to people who don't think depression is a real thing, or say 'just suck it up and get over it' - they just really have no idea. You have to give people the benefit of the doubt that they're doing the best they can to get through it.

You can never just write off a person as crazy. I think that is the most inhumane thing you can do to someone without physically abusing them.

An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.

We need to treat people with mental illness like people.

We forget some of the oldest medicines we have are love and compassion, and they can be deployed by everyone.

I read '13 Reasons Why' in middle school, and the message of the book stuck with me: to treat people better because you never know what they're going through.

I always seek the time to talk to people who are reaching out for help because sometimes you just need that one person to tell you everything is going to be OK.

Patience, time, love, it heals all.

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.

People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain.

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.

The best medicine for despair is service.

I think other people's depression is frightfully dreary, don't you?