Mental Quotes
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?
There is nothing more terrifying than a devious person who takes delight in their own mischief
Perhaps she wasn't ill at all in the end, but simply more revealed.
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.
You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.
They all think medicine should be magic, and they become mad at me when it's not.
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.
When you read my poems or quotes remember you're stepping into the mind that steps outside of me
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.
Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
We cannot institutionalize helping the "victims" of personal disasters.
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 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.
The biggest advice I can give loved ones who are supporting someone navigating a newly diagnosed mental illness is patience, patience, and patience.
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.
Etta, it could be everything, it could be nothing, what you’re making up. You shouldn’t let that bother you.
Don't worry, everyone is mentally ill, they just haven’t figured out a name for yours yet.
I’m afraid to see a psychiatrist about the voices in my head. She might know who they are.
Genius by birth, Bipolar by design
The voices in my head that tell the other voices what to do are mean.
There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.
Most of us feel isolated and paranoid during stressful times. We feel alone in the wilderness.
I never knew anybody, anywhere I have been, who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details, the way a planet looks smooth, from orbit.
This isn't a place for lies or pretending everything's all right. We know everything is not all right. If it were, you wouldn't be here. Now. Where did you go?
I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure.
My mind can be ugly. But when I read something of mine that I think is beautiful, I'm reminded my mind can be beautiful too.
My mind can be ugly. But when I read something of mine that I think is beautiful, I'm reminded mind can be beautiful too.
I am always in a state of Eunoia.And I'm not in it just for the vowels.
Being in love with someone who doesn't love you back is a tragedy. A fantasy is having someone understand the real you and love you anyway.
But the human mind, when it reaches the bottom of the abyss, must bounce back or disintegrate entirely.
Hating our bodies is something that we learn, and it sure as hell is something that we can unlearn.
Accelerated Rehabilitation had a scientific sound, as if Pierre would rehabilitate faster and faster in an elliptical path until evaporating in a blue flash of pure mental health.
If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough.
The value of a person shouldn't be decided by the judgements of other people. Kindness brings out the best in us all.
