Mental Health Quotes
Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing.
It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.
That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.
Prideful fool. It hurt his feelings that he couldn’t make my crazy go away. You know how men are. Always trying to fix things can’t be fixed.
Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.
Thing was, after the hurricane, life went on. You had to buy milk, fix the broken windows, play some Warhammer, discuss some girls. Wow!
But, darling, I need you to know, you loving me will not heal me. Please realize, I already know that. And I do not expect it to.
A healthy PFC means a healthy cognitive grip over the world with very little elements of prejudice.
What’s more insane? Hearing imaginary voices? Or not hearing the real ones?
John raised an eyebrow. “So you wouldn’t date someone like you?”“Oh, hell, no. I’m insane, but that would be nuts.
By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.
Words represent your emotional state, beware of what you speak! Restore your mental balance.
Rising from the ashes, I am born again, powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain.
You want to be there for me but an anxiety attack is a solitary activity.
This is how you explain how you feel: broken words and hard truths.
It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.
But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liablefor my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions
The shrinks call it Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. I call it hell. The demons are waiting in each corner, ready to drag me back to the battlefield.- Puncture Wounds (2014)
The only time it's hopeless is when you're dead! Long as you're alive, you can get better - you can make it better.
Mental health is usually the last place people go when they think about someone being sick.
My skin is so thin that the innocent words of others burn holes right through me.
Unfortunately, mental health is so misunderstood that some people think you have to be crazy to need to speak to a therapist.
People can't listen until they're ready. I sure couldn't. I was, like, deaf to everyone except the thoughts. They were the boss of me.
He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy
There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.
It got to the point where it became logical: if a woman was fiercely intelligent, outspoken and passionate, I’d look towards her arms for the scars. They were almost always there.
You know how they say that if you think you might be going crazy, it’s proof that you’re not? Well, it’s a lie. One of many they tell you about mental illness.
Have you ever suddenly realized it's someone else's mood swing and you're just along for the ride?
The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is political.
My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.
This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.
Recovery doesn't mean putting your life on hold. Recovery means holding on so you can live your best life.
We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.
Sometimes the only thing we can do for people is pray.
Being human is a portal into your divinity,
Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.
Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.
You'll notice that pain isn't solid or constant but rather a series of sensations, sometimes hard, sometimes light, and even sometimes gone altogether
You can’t make a small world for yourself, because what are you going to do when that small world implodes?
Perception is reality to the one in the experience.