Shawn Colvin Quotes

I believe that every human being has mental challenges.

I wanted to write a story about my struggles with depression and mental health. It's an issue that needs to be talked about more.

Sometimes it's dramatic, but mental health, as a whole, has to become mainstream.

An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health.

We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the 'mental health club' that our well-being more truly requires.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.

I have health challenges, I have life challenges, just like everyone else.

People see your life on social media, and they say, 'Oh my gosh, it's perfect,' and I'm like, 'No, every day, it's not even just a struggle: it's something new, and it's a new challenge to make sure that I'm mentally stable and healthy and that I'm okay.' It was just great to finally get it out and talk about it.

Oh yeah, I've been in therapy in and out of my whole life.

I am bipolar, and I am proud. And that is why I wanted to write a book. To shine a light on mental illness, to be vulnerable about the days I let it take control and paid dearly for it, and to tell anyone fighting a similar battle: You are not alone. You are not broken.

Everyone has some secret and some source of pain or sadness and I just said mine first and then everybody went after me. I get it every day in my Instagram direct messages, people thanking me for talking about depression and telling me how it helped them.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Our health and well-being is something that we can almost control, to a certain extent. We can choose to eat healthy, we can choose to think positively, and we can choose to have good posture. All this stuff makes a difference, and the way that you look and feel, and your confidence.

Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.

The peace of mind, is very essential for our health. So in that level, I think scientific finding, immense benefit to get our wellness and eventually conviction, peace of mind is not just a luxurious item, but peace of mind is actually very important for our survival, for our healthy survival.

Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.

There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.

We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?

Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.

The people I know that have the hardest time keeping it together emotionally are people that don't workout.