Mental Recovery Quotes

I learned that healing and cure are active processes in which I myself needed to participate.

I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.

I've learned to recognize, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wired wrong in certain ways; the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little bit.

I couldn't listen to music with lyrics for the first few months after the brain surgery, because they were too complex and disturbing. So I listened to a lot of classical music. I didn't really want to read, either, so I listened to books on tape or watched movies. I also re-taught myself all of my childhood piano pieces. It helped me repair my brain.

I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

If you're mentally weak, it can destroy you. Some guys who look talented lose and never come back.

The best remedy for an injury is to forget it.

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

I went to physical therapy, occupational therapy, voice, every kind of therapy except mental therapy - obviously!

You're wrong. The mind is not like raindrops. It does not fall from the skies, it does not lose itself among other things. If you believe in me at all, then believe this: I promise you I will find it. Everything depends on this." "I believe you," she whispers after a moment. "Please find my mind.

Rehab is one thing, but it takes years to get that attitude adjustment.

In my private life, I don't really do too much because the matches are so tough in the Premier League that it takes time to recover in between.

I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God.

We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence, yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.

I have an inability after matches are over to sort of switch off and relax completely.

Ever man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking.

After I resigned, I could eventually speak for myself, but when it first happened, I was in complete shock, and it took a long time for me to overcome it.

The season is long. When I'm off, I try to distract myself from hockey.

We are constantly under lots of pressure, so I take lots of time to recover and do all the things I need for my body to be in the perfect state to compete the next day.

We're all drowning in data. We all need moments of recovery. For me, that includes not going right to my phone when I wake up in the morning.

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.