Being physically fit doesn't mean anything if the mind isn't fit and being fit in the mind is not worth much if the body is suffering.

There is hope. You can do it. Start now.

I recommend a balance between the therapies that are available, the medicines that are available but not to give up on the body as a result.

I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop. And I'd be reading naked.

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

Sleep doesn't seem necessary. You wake up feeling great. But it's not all great feelings.

My quality of life is more amazing than I ever could've imagined in those 20 years of struggling with illness. In those 20 years, I did not know the meaning of the word hope. It was just a bleak, difficult existence. With all the gifts, with all the successes that I had, it was still an incredibly bleak way of living and I want to be a messenger of hope.