Michael Ontkean Quotes

What people don't realize is that everybody needs support, one way or another.

It's OK when you are struggling to reach out for help.

It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.

You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.

I've had a lot of girls reach out to me about struggling with body image. I've only been able to write back to a few of them, but I've been able to write and have correspondence with a few of them and really talk about what I think they should do or if I think they should ask for help.

My journey has been so full of struggle and I just want to be able to offer some help and some general ideas to people that really need it the most.

When you're going through these difficult times of chaos and trauma, the most important thing is to keep those who are closest to you together.

It's so hard to see one of your friends fall, and it's a reminder that you have to be on and in the zone.

Don't be scared to look for help. Depression is real... It's crazy, and all these guys, us athletes, that keep thinking we're superheroes. I like to think I'm a superhero, but superheroes got to fight their demons, too, sometimes.

If I could leave anybody with anything, it's this - if you need help, ask for it.

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.

Every family struggles with different things, and everybody struggles with different things.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives.

As humans, we need to reach out for support.

All I can say to people who don't think depression is a real thing, or say 'just suck it up and get over it' - they just really have no idea. You have to give people the benefit of the doubt that they're doing the best they can to get through it.

Everybody who cares about me wants me to do therapy, but I just can't do therapy.

Every once in a while you do have a bad day.

I'm not in the business of suffering.

We're out of our comfort zones with depression. I certainly was and whenever I have bad days now I speak to someone to get it off my chest.

I hope to help people. I hope that I can be the escape that they need when things seem impossible or too tough.

It takes great strength and courage to ask for help.