Bob Mortimer Quotes

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it; it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.

Well of course I get depressed sometimes, yes I do.

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

I don't know how I dealt with it. I went to a shrink.

When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.

I am depressed sometimes, but it's not what keeps me at home or focused on work.

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my head was Martin Luther King's.

I've never had a person come to me and say, 'I want to take down this person.' They come and say, 'I need help. This thing is killing me. It's weighing me down. It's sitting in the pit of my stomach.'

Painful breakups can have profound effects on the body and mind.

The 'Horn 'OK' Pleassss' harassment incident and the mob attack there had sent me spiralling into a deep state of depression in 2008.

When I started talking to my therapist, we hit the source of my PTSD and the trauma that came from the things that occurred when I was younger - issues with my father and how that may have affected me.

There came a point when I called my mom, and I was like, 'I need to come home. I'm not OK. I'm not good right now. My mental health isn't good.'

For many people who face anxieties, depression, trauma or grief that dominate their lives, a vital source of support may be a counsellor or psychotherapist.

What would I do without you? I'd die of stress and depression before nature killed me.

I feel worthless. My girlfriend was attacked on the subway yesterday. And I can't even enjoy it.

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.

I suffer from everyday life.

I have friends with post-traumatic stress - friends with post-traumatic stress who are, you know, highly successful, capable people.

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.