What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.

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The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.

Patricia Deegan

Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.

When you have heartbreak, what's important is that you don't go halfway. Go all the way down. Don't take pills that keep you in limbo. Cry out all the feelings. Then your own energy for life will put you up again. You become stronger.

Marina Abramović

Years before doctors informed me of my high-functioning autism and the disconnect it causes between person and language, I had to figure out the world as best I could. I was a misfit. The world was made up of words. But I thought and felt and sometimes dreamed in a private language of numbers.

Growth is simply learning how to suffer gracefully, elegantly and not letting your pain completely tear you apart.

Don't hang on to small annoyances.

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