A Common Struggle Quotes

“No one wants to admit that they suffer from a mental illness, because of the stigma,” I said. “Both of us suffer from major depression. He knows that I’ve been through a lot of the same things that he’s going through now.”
― Patrick J. Kennedy, A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction

“The fight to save “beautiful minds” can get pretty ugly.”
― Patrick J. Kennedy, A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction

“OUR SECRETS ARE our most formidable adversaries. The older I get, the more I see secrecy as “the enemy within,” which blocks recovery not only for individuals but for society itself.”
― Patrick J. Kennedy, A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction

“For me, a few hours ago, this campaign came to an end. For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”
― Patrick J. Kennedy, A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction

“We need to help inspire an increasingly “one-minded” approach to not only mental illness and addiction but brain diseases from autism to Alzheimer’s, bipolar disorder to traumatic brain injury, seizures to PTSD.”
― Patrick J. Kennedy, A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction

“love”
― Patrick J. Kennedy, A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction

“opening”
― Patrick J. Kennedy, A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction

“school noticed some changes in my sleeping habits—I”
― Patrick J. Kennedy, A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction

“I walked down the hall to the exit, I thought about all of the “aha” moments there are in the world of these diseases. So many people hiding and pretending, so many people who just want to be able to say out loud what’s wrong with them and get proper treatment, so many people all over the country who are facing the same problem but rarely find each other—and if they do, it’s often too late.”
― Patrick J. Kennedy, A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey Through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction