"Does Therapy Help?" (1995)
A nationwide survey of 4,000 people about their experiences in therapy -- why they went, who they saw, how long they went, and how helpful it was.
National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, across the United States.
"Sometimes Embracing Emotional Distress is the Best Medicine" (2016)
"Avoiding mental discomfort at any cost can be a self-defeating strategy." Are thoughts/feelings the problem, or is it all the things we do to try and run away from them?
DALAI LAMA
"If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry."
THOMAS MERTON
"The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most."
NELSON MANDELA
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI
"I do not promise you ease. I do not promise you comfort. But I do promise you these: hardship, weariness, and suffering. And with them, I promise you victory."
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."
ARISTOTLE
"At the olympic games it is not the finest and the strongest people who are crowned, but they who enter the lists."
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with song still in them."
JAPANESE PROVERB
"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance."