Quotes About Emotional health

Focus enough energy inward. Before befriending others, you have to be your own friend. Before making others happy, you have to make yourself happy. It's not called selfishness; its called personal development.

If you don't love yourself, you will always be chasing people who don't love you, either.

It's important to note that interdependence differs from what is sometimes called "codependence"—that is, an unhealthy relationship in which an individual's sense of identity and worth is wrapped up in the other person.

An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a realtionship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it take two wholes.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Primero no toques las agujas de tu corazón. Segundo domina tu cólera. Tercero y más importantes, no te enamores jamás de los jamases. Si no cumples estas normas, la gran aguja del reloj de tu corazón traspasará tu piel, tus huesos se fracturarán y la mecánica del corazón se estropeará de nuevo.

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

My experience of being ill led me to see that our bodies may feel autonomous, but we all live in the nexus of radical interconnection. Our bodies are always in communication with other bodies: our immune system is responsive not only to collective health policies but also to the emotions and affects of others.

At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.

It's a dangerous thing, to divide yourself, to break off bits of yourself until there's no solid core. We are, after all, just the sum of our total experiences, each one lying beneath us like a brick in the foundation of a house. To be selective, to block out portions, is to destabilize the very ground on which you stand.

We need to become different people in our responses to others, building character traits that allow us to handle their craziness without becoming victims. When we become different, people will respond to us differently. But most important, we'll have the strength of character and the boundaries that allow us to be emotionally healthy, no matter what others do.

If it weren't for my imagination, I would weigh ten thousand pounds. This is because the only way I am able to exercise anymore is through a long and vivid revenge fantasy.

Well," he said with a sigh, "psychology for years used to counsel to forgive. But we are beginning to recognize that it isn't always possible or even healthy to do that. I believe that sometimes it is important not to forgive, and to hang onto a healthy sort of rage at what happened,

How do you forgive someone who has never asked to be forgiven; somebody who has never even acknowledged any wrongdoing, someone who continues to do the same thing? How do you forgive an offender and still protect yourself from re-injury?

You have to step away from other people's craziness at some point. I learnt that in therapy. You have to stop owning it on their behalf. Even when they're your parents.

When I die, I will not be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves.

Happiness is corny. It is a word you do not find in Dorland's medical dictionary. When people are feeling tops, really at peace with themselves and others, they are not happy. In the medical sense, in that condition they are thought of not as happy, they are "euphoric," which, loosely translated, means slap-happy.

There is nothing wrong with leaving if you feel attacked. In fact, there are times when it's a good thing to do (see chapter 8). The damage comes from remaining passive and silent, absorbing the other person's criticism while your sense of personal power and self-esteem deteriorate.

We cannot be healthy human beings without accepting and experiencing the full range of human feelings.

When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis—the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage. Because of this, they lack the healthy aggression that they need to carry out their lives effectively.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.