J. D. Salinger

The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.

My brain and my heart are really important to me, I don’t know why I wouldn’t seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth. I go to the dentist. So why wouldn’t I go to a shrink?

Exercise is labor without weariness.

When individuals have access to the information about their bodies they can begin to change outcomes.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

And every person can benefit from talking to somebody. I’m the most anti-medication person, but some people need medicine, and there was a time where I needed some too.

It’s not about eating healthy to lose weight. It’s about eating healthy to feel good.

Yes. I am mentally ill. I’m not embarrassed about it. And I have written my best work not when flirting with the brink, but when treating my chronic health problem with consistency and care.

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.

I want to change the stigma of crazy, of mental health – period.

Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.

I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate – treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn’t be sustainable for me, and that’s what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.

I use the world as my therapy – as my therapist.

After the accident, I had to reconstruct myself completely. I was taught to see again and to hear with hearing aids. My body had to be completely reprogrammed. And music therapy was at the core of the healing process.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.