Quotes About Health

Well, honesty gets you locked up in a psych ward.

Medication is an incredibly attractive concept. Not just for the person with depression, or the person running a pharmaceutical firm, but for society as a whole. It underlines the idea we have hammered into us by the hundred thousand TV ads we have seen that everything can be fixed by consuming things.

A SIDE EFFECT OF depression is sometimes to become obsessed with the functioning of your brain.

So, as physical health and mental health are intertwined, couldn't the same be said about the modern world? Couldn't aspects of how we live in the modern world be responsible for how we feel in the modern world?

The doctor says it's situational depression. It's just that I keep on having new … situations.

To be healthy meant to be covered. Clothed. Literally and metaphorically.

Mental wellbeing counts as much as physical wellbeing - indeed, it is part of physical wellbeing.

Forcing yourself to see the world through love's gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

Mental health is intricately related to the whole body. And the whole body is intricately related to mental health. You can't draw a line between a body and a mind any more than you can draw a line between oceans.

And I've been like this for as long as I can remember. I have gone to the doctor many times, convinced of my imminent demise because of an illness I've googled myself into having. As a child, if my mum was late picking me up from primary school it would only take about a minute for me to convince myself she had probably died in a hideous car accident. That never happened, but it's continual not-happening-ness never stopped the possibility that it could happen. Every moment

If the madness is collective and the illness is cultural it can be hard to diagnose, let alone treat.

We can eat healthily, exercise and live sensibly but we will still age. Our 80th birthday will still be on the same date. Sure, we can make it more likely we will reach 80, but we can't stop the wheels of time. And that certainty is actually quite reassuring.

It's not clinical. The doctor says it's situational depression. It's just that I keep on having new…Situations.

Illness has a lot to teach wellness.

Standing asymmetrically from arthritis and osteoporosis.

yoga   A form of exercise based around stretching limbs, breathing slowly, and feeling superior.

I rarely said "I have depression" or "I am currently experiencing depression", because I imagined that depression was the sum of who I was... the trouble is, that I had a very binary view of things. I thought that you were either well or ill, sane or insane.

advertising their bad diets with the most ill-advised attire.

This might explain why rates of obesity are themselves dangerously rising. If we were happier with our bodies, we'd be kinder to them.

They have mental hospitals and body hospitals, as if one doesn't directly affect the other. And so, if they can't accept that a mind is directly responsible for the body of the same person, they are hardly likely to understand how a mind—albeit not a human one—can affect the body of someone else.

mental well-being counts as much as physical well-being—indeed, that it is part of physical well-being.

We need to find out what is good for us, and leave the rest.

the war metaphor is misleading, incomplete—even arguably dead wrong. Your immune system isn't a war machine. It's a peacekeeping force that more than anything else seeks to create harmony.

Inflammation is—very generally speaking—the body's immune system's response to stimulus.