Put on all the armor of the Lord. Not just the pretty stuff.

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service

It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

Once you've been talked to by voices, it's not possible to go back to a world where talking voices is not possible.

I take care of military families. Their sacrifices are very real.

Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.