Russell Hornsby Quotes

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?

When it's a really dark emotional scene, you have to make the effort to shake it off, at the end of the day, before you go home to your kids and try to be a normal human being. You definitely want to make that effort to shake it off.

In order to be a good emergency contact, you need a lot of friend-patience and empathy. Often, this comes from personal experience with anxiety, trauma, and depression.

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.

The first rule of the C.E.O. psychological meltdown is 'Don't talk about the psychological meltdown.'

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

I am mentally strong, but physically I'm constantly unwell. I internalise a lot of things, and if something stresses me or disturbs me, I don't talk about it and make myself sick with it.

People can have a variety of concerns at the same time. Even those undergoing grave or traumatic experiences will acknowledge the need for lightness or even entertainment.

One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.

Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.

Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.

What do you do when your world is falling apart? How do you hold onto the real and the rational? I think that's very relatable for people.

I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain.

Many people are worried about my mental health. But as I've said many times, we're stronger than we think we are.

We need to help young people and their parents understand that it's not a sign of weakness to ask for help.

If I didn't have my profession, I think I would be sitting in a nuthouse. But I have been unceasingly at work, and this has been very healthy for me. So I had no need for therapy.

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.