Erin Foster Quotes

If we know it's happening, and we're not having the discussion, we're contributing to the problem of making it seem like people can't open up.

I can't just expect people to know what to say. I have to make them see me as more than my illness.

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

I haven't been in the military, but I've known my share of pain. It allows me to sit with someone who's struggling and not be afraid.

Channel 4 know I'm messed up. But they've got a soft spot for me.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.

I'm very protective of how much I let people see.

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

We all go through times when we need help.

I'd like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something.

When you walk through the hospital, you waiver between feeling bad for everyone else and feeling bad for yourself. It's a war of the worlds - the healthy and the sick.

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

Without a commitment to privacy, respect, love, friendship and trust are simply inconceivable.

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

If you've ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with something, struggling with addiction or struggling with anything, and it's about the resilience of love and how much you're willing to struggle with somebody to preserve your relationship and to try to preserve them as a person.

When you are open about your things, people feel more able to talk to you. I think that's a nice thing, because people get help and don't feel so isolated.

I was afraid people wouldn't take me seriously, or would stop respecting me, if I talked about how bad I was feeling. The only people I talked openly about it with was my business partner, Dave Jilk, and my girlfriend - now wife - Amy Batchelor. They were amazingly supportive, but even then, I was deeply ashamed about my weaknesses.

I don't like to see anyone suffer, and there's a very, very fine line between being healthy and working and totally down and out.

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.

If you have suffered from trauma, one of the most healing things that can happen to you is being seen. Being seen doesn't have to mean that someone actually lays their eyes on you, although that certainly helps.