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Spoonful of Positive: Mental Health
"Don't make a permanent decision on a temporary emotion." -- unknown
"“Take your time healing, as long as you want. Nobody else knows what you've been through. How could they know how long it will take to heal you.” -- Abertoli
”Recovery is not one and done. It is a lifelong journey that takes place one day, one step at a time.” -- unknown
"And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.” -- Jane Austen
“Don’t give up on me when I isolate myself.” -- Jen Jolly
"A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support." -- Kate Middleton
“The first step to treat a mental illness is acceptance.”
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