Cameron Ball, LMSW

There are two quotes I find inspirational in making change. One comes from Bob Dylan. I ran across it while working with a young man struggling with mental illness: "A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom." The other is more recent. It is a quote from Stephen Colbert while talking about the death of his father and his brothers. "I have learned to love the thing that I most wish had not happened," he explains. "What do you get from loss? You get awareness of other people’s loss, which allows you to connect with that other person,” he said, “which allows you to love more deeply and to understand what it’s like to be a human being if it’s true that all humans suffer.” And that, along with a few things thrown in from school, is what I use to connect with those that come to me for whatever reason.