Mental Quotes
To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.
There seems to be a direct correlation between the spike in suicides by young people and the increase in cyberbullying amongst young people.
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.
Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.
We form a mental map, and then that shape, shapes us
Life did not take over the world by combat, but by networking.
Living in new shapes, reshapes our thinking
Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart.
Depression is like being under house arrest, only there is no house.
To the extent to which your consciousness is limited or expanded, is the extent to which you experience being divided or divine.
I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn’t a voracious reader.
To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yourself and come out of your mental limitations.
But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.
People were crazy with pain and secrets.
People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies. ~Louisa
When it comes to mental illness most of the diagnoses are similar or the same yet they can never display how we individually go through our pain.
When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in.
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If you want your Demons to go away quit using the words they taught you to say
I'm Bipolar with PTSD there's no shortage of pain inside of me
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
Nobody can see pain. They have no frame of reference for pain that's happening to someone else. They can only see inactivity - which they interpret as laziness.
Some people are married to ideas that they do not love, ideas that do not love them in return. They are married to ideas they do not sleep with, ideas that rob them of their sleep.
Whatever you did today is enough. Whatever you felt today is valid. Whatever you thought today isn't to be judged. Repeat the above each day.
I love to strengthen myself with a healthy diet, plenty of exercise and maintaining a strong connection to myself.
We are all in different places in our healing process. Do not become invested in someone who is not yet where you are to understand you. They truly cannot hear you.
You cannot fix, nor are you responsible for another persons low self esteem
Diversity enriches the soul. It is at the very essence of the life experience
When pretending starts, growth stops
When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.
You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.
The heart is where the journey of forgiveness begins.
Locking ourselves in the situation where we wish for sympathy and want to be looked at as the aggrieved party normally makes us powerless.
The moment we become forgivers, then we are in line to enjoy the benefits of forgiveness.
The idea of forgiveness is a journey that requires patience. If the journey of forgiveness is well travelled, there is a chance that we are bound to change in a very helpful way.
Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them.
Forgiveness does not change the past, that’s for sure, but it does change the future.
The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.
The only thing that will make us remain glued to being the victim is our failure to handle the emotions that we go through and the pain that overcomes us.
When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.
In an unforgiving world, chaos rules.
When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters.
When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.