Mental Quotes
When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i will consider all other colors invalid.
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.
She fails to see who I am, even, for her eyes do not, will not, take me in. Instead they transmit a powerful message. She is like a billboard flashing, starkly: 'Keep Out'.
I have a mental illness, but that doesn't stop me from being mentally capable.
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
Dissociative Disorders have a high rate of responsiveness to therapy and that with proper treatment, their prognosis is quite good.
It is not unusual for subjects diagnosed with a Dissociative Disorder on the SCID-D to be surprised at having their symptoms validated by a clinician who understands the nature of their disorder.
Most people can only sleep with a nice soft pillow I can only sleep with heavy anti psychotics
There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.
I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line
Because of my bipolar condition I will have to take anti psychotics until I die but hopefully a handful of them won't be the last thing I taste
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.
The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial
Have you ever suddenly realized it's someone else's mood swing and you're just along for the ride?
The unique stigma of PTSD. The stigma of PTSD remains one of the most formidable barriers to effective care.
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.
The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.
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.
Recovery doesn't mean putting your life on hold. Recovery means holding on so you can live your best life.
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.
We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.
A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.
Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.
I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.I don't want it to win.
The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.
It's up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind.