Mental Health Quotes
You’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem.
Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.
I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.
You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.
I hear a siren and, if we weren’t already in a hospital, I would have assumed they were coming for nearly everyone in this room.
The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!
Self-stigma refers to the state in which a person with mental illness has come to internalize the negative attitudes about mental illness and turns them against him- or herself.
It’s hard to imagine a more squarely on-the-nose example of demonizing mental illness than portraying a mentally ill man as a literal demon.
Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55
Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.
Sometimes the people around you won't understand your journey. They don't need to, it's not for them.
No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.
I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?
Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.
This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.
Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication
It's just as important to be around people that influence stable mental health as it is working towards it.
Your words control your life, your progress, your results, even your mental and physical health. You cannot talk like a failure and expect to be successful.
I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against what I had been and what they wanted me to be, and I knew they went away utterly confounded.
Brains are like toddlers. They are wonderful and should be treasured, but that doesn't mean you should trust them to take care of you in an avalanche or process serotonin effectively.
Stop shying away from people. If you actually took a moment to listen to what they have to say, they might just say something that will change your life.
Happiness is a state of mental, physical and spiritual well-being. Think pleasantly, engaged sport and read daily to enhance your well-being.
None of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough.
But that is what these people do - the Steves of this world - they all try and make something out of nothing. and they all do it for themselves.
Adoption is a lifelong journey. It means different things to me at different times. Sometimes it is just a part of who I am. Other times it is something I am actively going through.
Some people just live out their whole lives with some sort of ache in their heart they never resolve.
Even though I know that breaking your brain is the same as breaking your arm, I'm still ashamed that my brain is broken.
To resist a compulsion with willpower alone is to hold back an avalanche by melting the snow with a candle. It just keeps coming and coming and coming.
Officially, it is no more possible to be a little bit OCD than it is to be a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead.
Soon, when all is well, you're going to look back on this period of your life and be so glad that you never gave up.
They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.
Don't live the same day over and over again and call that a life. Life is about evolving mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.
Staying in an unhealthy relationship that robs you of peace of mind, is not being loyal. It is choosing to hurt yourself mentally, emotionally and sometimes, physically.
Regret is a painful thing. Few people understand that there are three important things that leave us and can never return. Words. Time. Opportunity. These are things we can never get back.
A question that always makes me hazy is it me or are the others crazy'Albert Einstein
It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it.
Often during writing, I am compelled by OCD to delete and rewrite a word or sentence over and over again.
The human being is so complicated in some ways, and yet so simple in others. Sometimes, we need complex medication regimens. Yet, sometimes, we just need a good cry.
Thoughts. Thoughts bombard my head, my brain. My psyche
Been under treatment for PTSD and bipolar since 1992. I’m not ashamed of my illness. I’ve been shunned by many and I feel for those shunned, too.
My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within.
You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious.
