Quotes About Mentalhealth

For the first time in history, more people die today from eating too much than from eating too little; more people die from old age than from infectious diseases; and more people commit suicide than are killed by soldiers, terrorists and criminals combined.

Clennon King, a black student who applied to the University of Mississippi in 1958, was forcefully committed to a mental asylum. The presiding judge ruled that a black person must surely be insane to think that he could be admitted to the University of Mississippi. The vicious circle: a chance historical situation is translated into a rigid social system.

The cause of depression and stress are negative thoughts, be positive, never infect your mind with negative thoughts.

D)ying is hard, but living is harder still. —Vincent van Gogh

She wasn't going to let the voice win today. She wasn't going to let all those bad feelings come crashing down on her, like they had so many times in the past. She was getting better.

We all go through tough times." "My parents are trying to kill me." "We all have issues.

Hattie had learned, over the years, to put her own fears in a box at the back of her mind, to stand tall and brave, to be resilient to whatever enemy presented itself.

People like Theodore Finch don't die.He's just wandering.

The thing I don't say is: I want to stay alive. the reason I don't say it is because, given that fat folder in front of him, he'd never believe it. And here's something else he'd never believe--I'm fighting to be here in this [crappy], messed-up world. Standing on the ledge of the bell tower isn't about dying. It's about having control. It's about never going to sleep again.

The thing I don't say is: I want to stay alive. The reason I don't say it is because, given that fat folder in front of him, he'd never believe it. And here's something else he'd never believe--I'm fighting to be here in this shitty, messed-up world. Standing on the ledge of the bell tower isn't about dying. It's about having control.

has happened with Finch. In that moment, I'm thankful I'm not a parent and I wonder if I ever will be. What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them. Actually, I know exactly how that feels. *

Problem was that the blues used to creep over him slow: a gradual trough, then a slow climb up the other side. But now his mind knew what to expect and ramped things up straightaway, from zero to critical in a matter of minutes.

I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

It's a very strange thing to suddenly be approached in the street and have streams of messages, and not know how to work through getting bad reviews and hate comments. It's something that can really weigh on the mind and be quite isolating.

I have panic attacks here and there, like in the weirdest places ever, and I've learned to deal with them.

I will tell you, I feel very, very bad for Kanye West. He's not well, and that is the very foundation of everything he says.

When you have a child who wants to take his own life and you feel powerless, nothing else in life matters.

Growing up, I was often put under a lot of pressure. Being an athlete, I've been dealing with pressure for a long time.

I don't know what pressures there are these days.

To be honest, I have a lot of mental demons in life and wrestling has definitely helped me out with that.

I'm not going to lie: you do get down sometimes, but I wouldn't say I was ever depressed; that's too hard a word. But you do become bored, because all you've done in your life is fight and box.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

I didn't get depressed, I don't get depressed.

Now, I'm getting a little older, got more responsibility, I don't need to be depressed.