Tierra Whack Quotes

My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.

My parents were not perfect, but no one's parents are. As childhoods go, mine was pretty comfortable and good in a lot of ways, and yet I still ended up with anxiety.

My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It's what you learn.

Maybe depression is the most reasonable response to all the crap around us. Maybe it's the happy people who need medication.

My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

I was so determined not to pass on to my children what I perceived to be the faults of my upbringing.

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

I take after my mother more than my father in terms of personality. My mother's a worrier, and I'm a worrier. Both were very good with numbers and mathematics, so I kind of got that from both of them.

Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children.

A lot of actors I had worked with seemed mentally unbalanced. It's only a matter of time before I go nuts myself.

When I was younger, I just lived my life on paper. I didn't really live in the real world very much. As a consequence, I couldn't cope with the real world and real people very well. That in itself became life threatening, so I had to stop drawing so much and learn how to cope with people.

My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.

With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

Post-traumatic stress disorder didn't surface as a condition until 1980... that fact was very relevant when I remember back to how these men behaved. A lot of walking on eggshells was required for wives and children.

There are people who are just suicidal, regardless. They are built to self-destruct. It seems, in my family, like a virus that's resistant to any kind of help or care or medication.

You draw the best things from your parents and family. You're going to pick up some of the bad things as well - there's a temper that runs through my dad's side of the family that I'm not especially keen on picking up a giant block of.

It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.