Simon Van Booy Quotes

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.

I was miserable at uni. There were months at a time when I wouldn't leave the house unless it was to buy food. I lost a lot of friendships. I later lost jobs because of my mental health.

I'm depressed! I'm completely depressed! I am firmly convinced that there is no one in this world who really likes me!" "So what else is new?

I feel such a sense of empowerment being a mom. But I do wonder: How do they/we do it all?

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.

I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when you're depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things.

I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.

A depressed person is often a person who will push others away. If you are pushed away and pushed away and pushed away, you have to have an enormous amount of inner resources to keep going back.

I am depressed sometimes, but it's not what keeps me at home or focused on work.

I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems.

When I was coming out of depression, I made one random video. It wasn't funny or anything, but just the idea that people I didn't know were watching it made me feel less alone than I'd felt in a long time.

During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.

As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

Everyone has their moments of solitude, difficulties, and vulnerability.

People don't want to see me having a bad morning. They have job problems, financial problems, family pressures, kids to get off to school. The last thing they want to wake up to is someone showing them the same problems. So maybe that's the one time I am forced to act.

It can feel isolating to be a mom. I've been one and felt isolated.

I didn't have any friends. I was bullied. I didn't play sports.

Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting.

When I am not playing, I suffer.

For about three or four years, I was in a lot more physical pain and stress than anybody knew. When I would meet people, I was kind of standoffish. That was because I was in a bit of a funk.