The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.

Russell Brand

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Kay Redfield Jamison

Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.

If you ignore a deep wound, it gets infected. Same is true of psychological wounds. You have to treat a wound to heal it.

I woke up one day and thought, 'Enough is enough with bullying myself.' The war is within you, and that's also where it's won. You just have to tackle your insecurities and then let them go.

Do not resist the pain. Allow it to be there. Surrender to the grief, despair, fear, loneliness, or whatever form the suffering takes. Witness it without labeling it mentally. Embrace it.

If I could snap my fingers and be non-autistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am.

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