Avril Lavigne

To be honest, part of me doesn’t want to talk about being sick because I want it to all be behind me, but I know I have to.

A lot of people undermine their own anxiety because they’re like…nothing’s necessarily going wrong. It just happens and it’s just inside of you and that’s not something you should be ashamed of. It’s justified because it’s happening.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

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.

You have good days and bad days, and depression’s something that, y’know, is always with you.

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

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

I got the mumps. They threw me in a crib so I wouldn’t roll out onto the floor. And there’s a big bay window in my house, and that window stayed perfectly still until that train started to chug. At a certain speed, I could reach up and feel the pane, and that glass pane would vibrate. I said, Doggone, there’s got to be a reason for this. So I go to the kindergarten teacher, and she takes me to the science teacher, and the science teacher takes me to the library and reads it off to me — “This is called resonance.” That was the beginning.

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

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

We can’t let people down when they can’t get any medical care, when they’re sick and don’t have money to go to a doctor. You help them.

At the root of this dilemma is the way we view mental health in this country. Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it’s still an illness, and there should be no distraction.

Need a whole new syntax for fatigue on days like this.

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

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.