Winona Ryder

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

The worst drugs are as bad as anybody’s told you. It’s just a dumb trip, which I can’t condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one’s own personal, social, emotional reasons. It’s something to be avoided if one can help it.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

I have a form of Parkinson’s disease, which I don’t like. My legs don’t move when my brain tells them to. It’s very frustrating.

You don’t see the mental illness: It’s not a mass; it’s not a cyst. But it’s there. Why do you need to prove it?

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

I’m struggling just to get through the days. I think a lot of people are.

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

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

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

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

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

If you said you had homosexual tendencies they sent you to a psychiatrist.

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

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

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.