#illness

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#because #dealing #depression #experience #had

Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#diagnosis #disease #early #either #emphasis

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime. ↗

— Lee Atwater

#country #deadly #decay #dime #eye

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#every #form #four #friends #illness

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#beautiful #heaven #lost-city #stillness #vision

My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years. ↗

— Columba Bush

#because #been #daughter #fighting #ill

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#healthy #idea #illness #making #man

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#hardest #i #learn #stillness #the hardest thing

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#anthony #anthony hopkins #anything #appear #character

When there's a terrible illness like AIDS sweeping through, you help people. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#help #help people #illness #like #people