I'm very anti-antidepressants. It's not the chemicals of my brain that's a problem; it's reality. I don't think tricking my brain into reinterpreting reality is going to help.
Women's emotions are constantly labeled. Any slight deviation from 'pleasantness,' and we are labeled as hysterical. When we are angry, sad, depressed, or manic, we are immediately seen as unfeminine or ugly or weak.
Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain.
People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
When I was 14, I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic,' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved ones, and discovered that it does in fact get better.
I was brutally bullied in school. I had short hair and buck teeth and kids would call out to me in the most nasty ways possible.
The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn't want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.
I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine.
If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans.
Don’t any of you realize that there is only one life between this madman and the Presidency.
The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.
A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.
So, to prevent fatigue and worry, the first rule is: Rest often. Rest before you get tired.
I think there's nothing wrong with being fixated on superheroes when you are 7 years old, but I think there's a disease in not growing up.
Depression is like the worst disease you can get. It's devastating.
I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.
When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.
I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.
One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM,' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'
Music can be a source of escapism.
In the United States, higher self-reported mental health is strongly correlated with holding conservative political views. Although I’ve seen it written about elsewhere, I was honestly surprised by how strong the relationship is. Among voters who report poor mental health, liberals outnumber conservatives 45 percent to 19 percent. Among those who report excellent mental health, conservatives outnumber liberals 51-20.
