Karamo Brown Quotes

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

I feel like I am nowhere near perfect and I have my really rough days and my really off days, but I think being aware of it is the first step to helping yourself.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

To me, I don't write when I'm depressed. If I'm depressed, which is actually rare, I'm not doing anything, you know, and I'm not able to do anything.

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.

Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it.

The truth is that several years ago, I suffered from depression. And I remember during this time, I basically fell into this hole where my life became cold, and it became gray, and I lost sight of everything that was important to me.

If I break my finger, I go to accident and emergency. If I have a cold, I go to the pharmacy. If I'm broken inside, where do I go? So, to help myself heal, I felt the best way to do this would be to talk, to share and to better understand what it is that I have.

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.

Make a list of the people in your 'choir'... If you're not on your own list, then you're doing something wrong.

Everyone reacts to things differently but just identifying in your own life, what works, seeing what doesn't, is as important for to you to talk about your own mental health.

I have money in my bank account. I have my own apartment. I have friends. I still go through and experience depression. You don't have to be ashamed of it.

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.

I've struggled with depression in my life and sort of the way that the depression itself becomes an addiction.

I used to suppress all my feelings, and it doesn't do anybody any good.

Finally, be kind to yourself and have a good support system.

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

I've felt depressed many times in my life, so I can draw on those times in my life when I need to.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

I used to get out of bed sometimes and feel depressed and watched a lot of reruns on TV to get over it. I should have allowed myself to be a little more human and not worry about trying to be a superwoman.