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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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Naomi Judd
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Radical acceptance is to know that painful things are still going to happen, but how we respond makes a difference. We don’t have to condone our current reality, but we have to accept it for what it is instead of staying stuck, wishing it were different.
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Naomi Judd (River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope)
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Your body hears everything your mind says.
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Naomi Judd
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Bruce Lipton (The Biology of Belief),
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Naomi Judd (River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope)
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There can always be healing, even if there is no cure.
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Naomi Judd (River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope)
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After three weeks on Zoloft and Lexapro, I felt like a new person. But not a person anyone would ever want to get to know.
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Naomi Judd (River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope)
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The third prescription had even less effect in lifting my depression than the first two and had done nothing but increase my anger and feeling of hopelessness.
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Naomi Judd (River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope)
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I wanted to confess that if someone took out a gun and killed me onstage he would be doing me a favor.
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Naomi Judd (River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope)
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But one of the frustrating symptoms of my depression and anxiety is that I had no attention span at all. I would read one paragraph and then realize that I had no idea what I had just read, or I’d accidentally reread the same paragraph, over and over. I was desperate to find articles or research by someone who understood what I was going through.
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Naomi Judd (River of Time: My Descent into Depression and How I Emerged with Hope)