41 Quotes by Linda Hamilton

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.

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.

Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.

Exercise is an incredible key to feeling well.

For people with mental illness, taking care of the body is not an automatic thing. The mind is in such chaos it's hard to come up with a plan. So to people like us, it's more important than ever to follow a regimen.

The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.

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.

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.

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.