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It's All Absolutely Fine QUOTES

1 " My brain, having been suspended in a state of hyper-vigilance for such a long time, just packed in and said 'No more, your job now is to lie on the sofa incredibly still and just work on evaporating, you useless towel'. And so I did. "

― Ruby Elliot , It's All Absolutely Fine

2 " Because the silence is exhausting and isolating in a way it needn't be. "

― Ruby Elliot , It's All Absolutely Fine

3 " ...this was as if an actual steamroller driven by a crazy grinning idiot had trundled through the door and flattened my entire life into a sad pancake of nothingness. "

― Ruby Elliot , It's All Absolutely Fine

4 " It's unrealistic to expect myself to go from "I loathe myself beyond words" to "I love and value me 'cuz I'm worth it *hair swish*" overnight. I can take jazzy little lizard steps toward compassion at my own pace. "

― Ruby Elliot , It's All Absolutely Fine

5 " Self-harm is not an uncommon experience, nor is it a shameful defect or personal failure, it happended to me because I wasn't able to manage intense emotional distress. "

― Ruby Elliot , It's All Absolutely Fine

6 " What I have got a shot at controlling is the way I manage what's happening. And that's what I was in therapy for, not to be fixed, but to facilitate and support me finding some sort of way through my difficulties. "

― Ruby Elliot , It's All Absolutely Fine

7 " Sadly I think I knew what a muffin top was before I knew what the term misogyny meant, so that says it all really. "

― Ruby Elliot , It's All Absolutely Fine

8 " A misconception that really pisses me off is that therapy is a hippy-dippy cop out for those who are too weak to deal with their problems. [...] It takes enormous amounts of mental effort to arrive at a place where you can ask for help, and even more to believe your problems are valid and warrant being taken seriously by a third party. "

― Ruby Elliot , It's All Absolutely Fine

9 " Collectively, our mental health relies heavily on supporting one another, but sometimes that's not enough. On a basic level, I think therapy is a slightly more structured way of getting what we probably all need when we are struggling, which is to talk and to be heard. "

― Ruby Elliot , It's All Absolutely Fine