Ultimate Quotes on Depression, Anxiety and Bipolar Disorder

I was with someone recently who asked: ‘Well, don’t you think that if you do too much therapy it will take away your artistic process?’ And I told them: ‘The biggest lie that we’ve ever been sold is that we as artists have to stay in pain to create.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

I would say what others have said: It gets better. One day, you’ll find your tribe. You just have to trust that people are out there waiting to love you and celebrate you for who you are. In the meantime, the reality is you might have to be your own tribe. You might have to be your own best friend. That’s not something they’re going to teach you in school. So start the work of loving yourself.

I’m not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope fellow sufferers will know it’s completely controllable. I hope I can help remove any stigma attached to it, and that those who don’t have it under control will seek help with all that is available to treat it.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, and our shortcomings instead of pretending they don’t exist, then maybe we’ll leave the world a better place than we found it.

If you are broken, you do not have to stay broken.

If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl, but by all means, keep moving.

If you know someone who’s depressed please resolve to never ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest and best things you will ever do.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

If you were born with the weakness to fall, you were born with the strength to rise.

If you’re going through hell, keep going.

In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

It is not the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.

It is okay to have depression, it is okay to have anxiety and it is okay to have an adjustment disorder. We need to improve the conversation. We all have mental health in the same way we all have physical health.

It’s healthy to admit you’re not ok. ‘It’s ok not to be ok’ it’s brave. But don’t let it win. Be sad. Have your moment, your day, or week. Then do something about it and be happy. For yourself.

It’s my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.

It’s ok not to be okay, but it’s not okay to stay that way.

It’s okay to not be perfect and not to have everything figured out. It’s okay to feel things that are shameful, hate, and feel guilty. I feel like the message we’ve tried to stand by, is that it’s basically okay to have scars and to show them. To show that you’ve been through all sorts of things and have come out a different and better person because of it.

It’s okay, you know? It’s okay to be you. It’s okay to just not be okay. It’s okay to not be okay.

It’s possible to live well, feel well, and also find happiness with bipolar disorder or any other mental illness [you’re] struggling with.

It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

We would never tell someone with a broken leg that they should stop wallowing and get it together. We don’t consider taking medication for an ear infection something to be ashamed of. We shouldn’t treat mental health conditions any differently.