Demi Lovato

I’m fragile just washed upon the shore.

You’re not worth the time that this is taking.

I don’t wanna be afraid. I wanna wake up feeling beautiful, today.

Now payback is a bad bitch and baby, I’m the baddest.

Now I’m a warrior.

We’re cool for the summer.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

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

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

There’s not shame in dealing with these things. There’s no shame in having to fight everyday.

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

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.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.

In the medical community, you would never deny a diabetic his insulin ever. But for some reasons, when someone needs a serotonin inhibitor, they’re immediately crazy or something. And I don’t know, it’s a very interesting double standard that I often don’t have the ability to talk about but I certainly feel no shame about.

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.

If today I can practice a sport, and move around 90% of the time without a cane, it’s because of the love and support of my producers, record labels and above all my audience who have always believed in me. Otherwise I wouldn’t have made much more progress than I did in the hospital.

It was against my principles and all, but I was feeling so depressed I didn’t even think. That’s the whole trouble. When you’re feeling very depressed, you can’t even think.

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

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