Mental Quotes
Etta, it could be everything, it could be nothing, what you’re making up. You shouldn’t let that bother you.
We all feel inadequate very often. It’s only when it gets chronic that it is disturbing to one’s emotions and can get out of hand and make you pretty damn miserable.
The biggest advice I can give loved ones who are supporting someone navigating a newly diagnosed mental illness is patience, patience, and patience.
We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.
I do not have a split mind. I am not different people. I am myself, the same self I have always been, the one person I can never escape.
We cannot institutionalize helping the "victims" of personal disasters.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
I see taking care of my emotional and mental health in the same way that I see taking care of a garment: After it's been through wear and tear, it needs attention.
When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me
I begin to wonder if David was like me. Seeing monsters everywhere and realizing there aren't enough slingshots in the world to get rid of them.
They all think medicine should be magic, and they become mad at me when it's not.
You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.
This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think will have MAD stamped across it.
Perhaps she wasn't ill at all in the end, but simply more revealed.
There is nothing more terrifying than a devious person who takes delight in their own mischief
We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?
We are made in the image of God, and we need to put Spirit back into the equation when we want to improve our physical and our mental health.
you'll never see my books on Vanity Fair I'm not the type of author they would want there
What aided the mind made the body suffer. They could choose mental health or physical health, but they could not have both.
I'm Bipolar but as normal as you except for the times my mind thinks like two
Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.
I honestly didn’t realize at the time that I was dealing with myself. But I suppose it’s true that I developed a therapy that provides the things I needed for so many years and never got.
Yes I'm Bipolar but I'm as normal as you except the times when my mind thinks like two
It is a terrible thing to grieve for someone who is not dead, not in love with someone else, but just no longer there.
Fools write books about madness being an elevated mental state or an alternative form of creativity. It's not, it's anguish.
Treatment for people with disabilities and mental illness in prewar America reveals a profoundly ignorant medical establishment and educational community.
We are all a collection of lost causes, stashed here so no one has to see just how wounded we are.
As smart as I am, it took a boy stuck in his house to teach me that sometimes it doesn't matter where you are at all. It only matters whos with you.
No healthy mind could bring itself to torture another human being.
The amount of sympathy you get from having an illness is paid out like a Ponzi scheme and psychiatric disorders are all the way at the bottom.
We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the 'mental health club' that our well-being more truly requires.
Inside my head is a jigsaw made of trillions and trillions and trillions of atoms. It might take a while.
Crazy. It was the same word María and Tía Rosa flung at Grandpa Lázaro. The same word anyone said when they didn't understand something. "Crazy" was a way to shut people up, disregard them entirely.
In the same way that our school system feels strongly about requiring vaccinations and annual physicals, I feel strongly that it is essential to add a mental health component to that annual physical.
Believing something existed and then finding out it didn't was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step.
Many people are worried about my mental health. But as I've said many times, we're stronger than we think we are.
Her mother always told her, “If he hits you, then you leave, ” but Jack had never hit her, not with his fists.
I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom.
Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd.
Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages.
Habits of the mind also provide our mental framework – the way we see the world