Quotes About Mental-health

My instincts tell me that you will spiral into a very unhealthy place if you start pondering about how other people think about you and, quite frankly, I don't want to go there.

So, without saying anything to the others, it made its way to the farthest corner of the meadow and began to toast an imaginary muffin. That was always the best way to unwind when things got to be too much for it.

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone." His

Literature doesn't exactly have a strong mental-health track record.

Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.

the three requirements to make the capturing phase work: 1  |  Every open loop must be in your capture system and out of your head. 2  |  You must have as few capturing buckets as you can get by with. 3 | You must empty them regularly.

Review whatever lists, overviews, and orientation maps you need to, as often as you need to, to get their contents off your mind. After

Keep everything in your head or out of your head. If it's in between, you won't trust either one.

I think I beat myself up more than anyone else.

Soon I find myself squatting on the floor. I am still striking my face; not with my fists this time, but with wide-open hands. I am slapping myself. The sounds I make when my palms meet my cheeks are like an unrelenting round of applause. I am clapping myself. Or clapping for myself. I start to giggle. All the voices are receding now. I am no longer filled with rage or disappointment. I clap and clap and simply cannot stop.

I hate it when the voice inside my head chews me out.

To feel sorry for oneself is one of the most disintegrating things the individual can do to himself.

It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.

man who has one pet monkey might be viewed as charmingly eccentric. But a man who has made his home into a monkey house, with scores of chattering chimpanzees capering through the rooms, will have lost credibility with the mental-health authorities.

Loving and approving of yourself, trusting in the process of life and feeling safe because you know the power of your own mind make up the best diet I know of. Go on a diet from negative thoughts, and your weight will take care of itself.

the fact that there's a lot you have to blank out if you want to get through life...

Arguing with one's self is beneficial.Out of all the million voices in my head screaming for your death, you're lucky I heeded the one that wants to spare you this time.

Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.

I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to the wasteland. She could plant a forest inside herself.

When they get out of balance, and our inner selves become involved in intense conflict, then people can begin to experience mental-health problems.