Lizzie Armitstead Quotes

I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff.

I've done what I could as far as getting physically healthy after my knee injury, and I've done what I could to get mentally healthy after losing my husband.

There's no way I can go back and uninjure myself.

If you're injured, it's always mentally hard.

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

I was in a very deep, dark slump, and I needed to find a way to get myself out of it. I had to force myself back out into life, back out into experiencing things.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

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.

When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.

In life, you have to learn how to heal. You never get over stuff, but you have to learn how to heal.

I had a pretty bad injury the end of my freshman year in college, and that taught me just to be patient.

I survived a terrorist attack and got stabbed another four times, literally stabbed in the heart, and somehow, I'm going to be 100 percent OK.

I like to be busy, especially after I lost against Luke Rockhold. The best way to recover is to get another fight.

I do a lot of book signings and conventions every year, and I meet a great many readers who are struggling... they're working through illness, injury, addiction, depression, grief, or some other trauma. It seems to me that there's a lot of heroism in fighting those things as well, as best you can.

All I treat at the hospital is trauma survivors.

I was diagnosed with OCD and depression, and that was a huge relief, because now my struggles had a name and could be reckoned with. With a combination of therapy and medication, I got better. I learned to love life again. My problems didn't go away, but they became much easier to face.

Thank you to everybody who was there for me when I was going through depressed times.

If you get a big injury, it is not easy at all to deal with it.

What happened with Gutknecht does frequently cross my mind, but I can't do anything about my situation. I need to carry on boxing so that's what I've been doing.

There is something very healthy about finding support from others during difficult times. I needed it for my own healing.

Writing about my illness put me into places. It was very triggering. I had to completely remove myself and practice self-care. I learned to be patient.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.