Mariel Hemingway Quotes

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.

Everyone has issues, and I'm not someone who likes to burden people.

All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.

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

People don't drop me with shots on the temple.

Almost everyone I know is battling something, whether it's allergies or depression. Whatever it is, it makes you feel less than who you are. I believe part of life's challenge is to work through that.

Everyone struggles with ups and downs and there is great therapy in knowing we all go through it.

At the end of the day, we're just trying to prevent each other from going mad.

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.

I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed.

Googling me, you talk about being depressed. First of all there's 18 websites that predict my early death.

I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.

I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

I'm just like anybody. I have my ups and downs.

Of course I have bad hair days; I'm human.

Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having some sort of emotional trauma, you need to find a person to talk to about it who says, 'This is quite normal; it's fine.'

This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

I'm a human being and every human being has problems.

My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it.

People can be cruel, but that doesn't mean you have to take it home, wrap yourself up in it and wear it.

I think people found out I'm just like anybody else. I've got problems, too.

I get tired too, just like everybody else. Sometimes I tell people that, but all I get is people saying that being vulnerable and weak is just not like me. I rarely get the response of emotional support I want. But sometimes I need it.

Across the Atlantic, commercial therapy of all kinds provides so many more comfortable outlets for people when they are under pressure. The English tradition is to get a grip, whereas the American version is to get in touch with your feelings, to say: 'I'm a good person. Isn't it terrible when bad things happen to people like me?'

My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.