We can choose to wake up and grumble all day and be bitter and angry and judge others and find satisfaction in others doing bad instead of good. Or we can we wake up with optimism and love and say, 'Just what is this beautiful day going to bring me?'
You can't fix yourself out of a mental health issue. You can't wake up and say, 'Today I'm not being depressed!' It's a process to get well, but there is recovery.
Bad choices make good stories.
If you rely completely on protocol, you can become a robot.
The secret is to nip any mental disorder in the bud. As soon as you're not feeling yourself, reach out and get some help because you can quickly get better. If you get stuck in it, it's so hard to get out.
I just want to find my individuality.
Growing up in Vancouver in the 1950s, I was often capricious and temperamental, quick to laugh, even quicker to feel despair, prone to flailing my arms, pouting and crying when things didn't go my way, or I thought something was unfair, or I was bullied by my sisters.
I am a free spirit that must survive in a free world.
I've never been one to celebrate anniversaries.
I tried to be a good wife, but I was lost in my gilded cage.
I didn't even like Mick Jagger.
Canadians know me so well - I am part of Canada's collective memory - and my fame would get people through the door who would not otherwise be interesting in talking about mental health.
I'm no political pundit.
I had to divorce my husband, the prime minister. I found it terribly overwhelming.
I remember, after my first postpartum depression, I didn't know what had happened to me. I was stuck in this gray depression where I just wanted to retreat and pull the covers over my head and weep. My mother and I, we went to a psychiatrist, and he just patted me on the head and told me I had baby blues, which was not helpful, obviously.
I know it will blow minds, but I plan on finding an apartment in New York. I'll commute to Ottawa, so I can still be Pierre Trudeau's wife and the mother of our three children - but I also want to be a working photographer.
I live with being bipolar, but it doesn't define me anymore.
I was a bit of a mother hen at Studio 54.
I try to build up people, not break them down, and in politics, it seems now the game is breaking down your opponents.
I'm pretty much an out-front, straightforward chick, and I get a bit confused by expectations.
