Awareness Quotes

"You don’t need to find a lesson in your trauma."

- Jordan Pickell, MCP RCC

"We want you to know that you don’t need to be in crisis or distress to seek help as going to therapy has numerous benefits."

- Carla Avalos LCSW+PMH-C

"'Positive vibes only' isn’t a thing. Humans have a wide range of emotions and that’s OK."

- Molly Bahr, LMHC

"Mental health affects every aspect of your life. It’s not just this neat little issue you can put into a box."

- Shannon Purser

"The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health."

- Stefan Molyneux

"The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne. The prevention of many suicides will continue to be hindered until there is a general awareness of the nature of this pain."

- William Styron

"So many people look at [my depression] as me being ungrateful, but that is not it — I can’t help it. There’s not much that I’m closed off about, and the universe gave me all that so I could help people feel like they don’t have to be something they’re not or feel like they have to fake happy. There’s nothing worse than being fake happy."

- Miley Cyrus

"There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts."

- Andrew Solomon

"Feeling your feelings will not lead to depression."

- Jordan Pickell, MCP RCC

"…if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication."

- Daniel Goleman

"I’m not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope fellow sufferers will know it’s completely controllable. I hope I can help remove any stigma attached to it, and that those who don’t have it under control will seek help with all that is available to treat it."

- Catherine Zeta-Jones

"Emotions, moods, impulses, ebb and flow with the tide of my life. Tidal waves, at times, in a bipolar mind."

- H.G.

"Don’t let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries."

- Astrid Alauda

"What does your anxiety do? It does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but it empties today of its strength. It does not make you escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it comes."

- Raymond L. Cramer

"No amount of anxiety can change the future. No amount of regret can change the past."

- Karen Salmansohn

"My anxiety doesn’t come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it."

- Hugh Prather

"When I don’t pay attention to my feelings, I tend to put up with situations and people longer than I should."

- Allyson Dinneen

"I hope one day that, as a culture, we can take mental health as seriously as we take our physical health. That would be the ideal."

- April Kilduff, MA, LCPC, LMHC

"Whether an illness affects your heart, your arm, or your brain, it’s still an illness, and there shouldn’t be any distinction … We don’t consider taking medication for an ear infection something to be ashamed of. We shouldn’t treat mental health conditions any differently."

- Michelle Obama

"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."

- Nathaniel Branden

"Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement."

- Wayne Dyer

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."

- Sylvia Plath

"To all of those like me who overschedule, overthink, overwork, over-worry, and over-everything, please know you’re not alone. We don’t talk enough about mental health and don’t do enough to destigmatize talking about it."

- Ryan Reynolds

"It has been well said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."

- Charles Spurgeon

"It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth — and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up — that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with."

- Adam Ant

"Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained."

"Don’t believe everything you think."

"We need to make mental health as important as physical health."

- Anonymous