I think what I would have liked to tell my younger self about my mental health is that there are answers, for me, some of those answers I had to wait years to find and I needed to get different help, which ended up being really the right kind of help.

Mayim Bialik

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As a kid, I felt really weird. by Mayim Bialik

As a kid, I felt really weird.

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I have a life. My kids don't run my house. by Mayim Bialik

I have a life. My kids don't run my house.

house running kids

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays. by Mayim Bialik

I started acting because I enjoyed school plays.

acting play school

I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's f... by Mayim Bialik

I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.

caricatures tvs thinking

I like bold colors but usually wear black. by Mayim Bialik

I like bold colors but usually wear black.

I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy. by Mayim Bialik

I get maybe four hours of sleep a night. I'm a little bit crazy.

crazy sleep night

I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So... by Mayim Bialik

I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.

army boots together

I'm a pretty quiet person. by Mayim Bialik

I'm a pretty quiet person.

quiet-person persons quiet

I have a neuroscience background - that's what my doctorate is in - and I was trained to study hormones of attachment, so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

hormones attachment study

Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child. by Mayim Bialik

Breast-feeding is the natural, optimal way to feed a child.

natural children way

Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description o... by Mayim Bialik

Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal.

mammals jobs children

I don't think my stylist would let me bedazzle my splint. by Mayim Bialik

I don't think my stylist would let me bedazzle my splint.

stylist let-me thinking

My first son didn't really take a bottle, and I didn't like givin... by Mayim Bialik

My first son didn't really take a bottle, and I didn't like giving bottles.

bottles giving son

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction. by Mayim Bialik

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.

comic book fiction

I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them.

knowing baby believe

I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms of the '70s and '80s.

raised comedy three

I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works real... by Mayim Bialik

I'm big on my kids being conventionally polite, and it works really well for them.

polite bigs kids

We're a show about 'the other people.' And I think everyone has a little bit of 'not belonging' in them.

I definitely became more aware of how much I was becoming more and more clingy as they pulled away, which is a natural thing for boys to do. It’s been a real exercise in patience and also trusting that they’re not going to go away forever and that this is part of a normal pulling away. after thinking about it more, and realizing obviously I ’m trained as a scientist of both the male and the female body and as a mom of two boys, it was something that obviously I had some experience.

I think being a girl has its own set of pressures, which are very different from those of boys, a lot of the mixed messages girls get are more about appearance. ‘ You’re perfect just the way you are, ’ except that every image in the media indicates that you’re not.