Quotes About Mental-health

be aware of negative messages and refuse to apply them to yourself.

You didn't get sober to be stupid, Danny. Keep it in mind the next time you start listening to that itty-bitty shitty committee inside your head.

The cleanest feet in the universe are positive thoughts walking through your mind.

When your brain receives repeated messages like those––messages that redefine how you feel about yourself and your place in this world––your brain begins to record them and keep them. They are like the words to a song that changes your life, and never leaves you.

One of the downsides of working in philosophy is that it attracts a lot of people with mental-health problems.

I found myself burning up, mentally. Fucking weakling, I told myself, fucking loser. I started to spiral, not just hating myself, but hating myself for hating myself.

At this point, my greatest enemy was myself. Self-doubt can be crushing, and sometimes it is hard to see outside the black bubble.

State and federal legislation — particularly the Community Mental Health Centers Act, passed by Congress in 1963 — called for the funding of community mental-health centers, to reduce the role of the discredited state hospitals in the care of the mentally ill, but community facilities were built slowly when they were built at all.

You interrupted the daily conversation between my ears that went something like this: What is wrong with you Julia?

At the age of 19 I made a choice not to read anything that's written about me. I just don't touch it because it's not good for you.

Even if you're meditating, practicing yoga, reading a book, or taking a bath - It's so important for our wellbeing to just take some time away from social media.

Sometimes something happens even when nothing happens. Other times nothing happening is exactly what it sound like. I have a friend in the mental-health field who would tell me that at times it can be difficult to tell those two things apart.

This widespread epidemic of self-victimization—defining yourself in essence by way of a bad thing, a trauma that happened in the past that you've let define you—is actually an illness.

You can drive your own self crazy. You don't have to be in a bad situation or be bullied every day to feel this way. I was constantly judging myself. That's really the thing that gets you.

I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

All the monsters in your mind just want to be nice. They want to be kind. They want to play nice. They want to be softer than the storms around. You feel them through the windows and the doors.

It is hard to love yourself if you never spend time with yourself. 'Alone Time' is Necessary

He understood it to be another deep nudge from forces unseen, almost surely connected with the letter that had come along with his latest mental-disability check, reminding him that unless he did something publicly crazy before a date now less than a week away, he would no longer qualify for benefits.

There's no room for demons when you're self possessed.

The way you talk to yourself sometimes is terrible! I hear myself, and I go, 'I can't believe you're talking to my friend Allison like that!' It's really terrible, the things we say to ourselves.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

Strive to achieve a positive frame of mind. Cultivate thinking in a positive way. Every day read inspirational books and articles

I don't really compare myself to anybody. That would be very unhealthy.