Mental Quotes

Falling in love happens so suddenly that it seems, all at once, that you have always been in love.

He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

This is peculiarly an age in which each of us may, if he do but search diligently, find the literature suited to his mental powers.

The best team does not always win, it's the team that plays the best.

People pleasing doesn't allow you to receive.

Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have.

As no one knew much about my mental illness, a lot of people had the attitude that I had the capability to 'kick it' and get better instantly. This was the most frustrating attitude for me.

He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.

The scariest thing of all is never knowing what you're suddenly going to believe.

What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.

It can't have been fun to live with somebody whose brain was under siege.

...men aren't in touch with their emotions, and don't share enough [?]

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care.

There are no dead ends in life, only dead end thinking.

I get absolutely shitfaced. I am shitfaced and hyper and ten years old. I am having the time of my life.

Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum.

The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health.

I think one of the big problems we have got - and police tell me this - is most police don't know how to deal with mental health problems. And so we need better mental health response.

Mental health is one of the biggest concerns, because now police are having to handle a lot of really difficult mental health problems on the street.

Group meditation according to Jon Kabat

We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today.

Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.

You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.

I tried to will them with my super mental powers so he’d put them around my waist, but apparently I had no super mental powers.

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings'.

Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

A positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude.

I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.

And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did.

The study also included the disturbing revelation that most of the troops who reported having mental health problems also reported that they did not seek or did not receive care for their problems.

I have a relationship with Christ. It allows me to handle situations better. It allows me to treat people better and it allows me to have a better mental attitude towards baseball.

Bring into reality the possibility of the improbable by acquiring a positive mental attitude. Say to yourself, as Henry Ford said to his engineers, "Keep working!"

Always good to have one crazy in the family ... It takes the pressure off everybody else.

I think that people do things for a reason - that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.

People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.

I was a psycho woman. It felt like something in me that I had no control over.

During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health.

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude them from our circle.

I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.

Get yourself prepared, educationally and emotionally, and develop mental toughness. Don't ever give up.

If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects the mental health of boys.