Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

It is clear to me that one of the biggest obstacles we face as human beings is the pain we put ourselves through when we resist and wrestle with our emotions.

The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.

I couldn't deal with a normal life.

I had gone through a really rough patch in my life, struggling with anxiety and depression for the first time ever, and it was totally new to me. I really had no idea what was going on, and it was all I could think about, so it was all I could write about.

When I was younger, there weren't many people that were open about going through anxiety, so I never knew how to deal with it.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

The worst thing about living in this world, in general, is that things get overwhelming, and things cause a tremendous amount of despair and anxiety.

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see is black. You may find that if someone pours water all over you, you are damp and distracted, but not cured of your sadness, the way a fire department can douse a fire but never recover what has been burnt down.

I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse.

The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.

The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It's not getting easier; if anything, it's always right on the edge of my skin.

It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children.

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.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.