Quotes About Mentalhealth

There should be no distasteful tasks in one's life. If you just hate to do a thing, that hatred for it develops body-destructive toxins, and you become fatigued very soon.

I think everyone should go crazy at least once in their life. I don't think you've truly lived until you've thought about killing yourself.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.

Did I get my picture in the yearbook under "Most Likely to Commit Suicide"?

The most important thing in a child's development is emotional stability.

The incidence of alcoholism, drug addiction, compulsive sexualism, and suicide in contemporary Western society are symptoms of this relative failure of herd conformity.

Zum Selbstmord neige ich nicht, denn ich verspüre nichts von jenem Tatendrang, der andere nötigt, so lange mit dem Kopf gegen die Wand zu rennen, bis der Kopf nachgibt.

We don't act like that because we are in good humor; we are in a good humor because otherwise we should go to pieces.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

When you cannot make friends any more in your head is the worst.

I've learned that you never win a battle of wills with a crazy person because they don't even know there's a battle.

Your melancholy . Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.

It was too early for me to interact with the living, and in spite of my general fondness for Sera, she still was another entity and thus a toll on my exhausted mind.

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

I still remember the days, not wanting to see anybody, not wanting to talk to anybody, really not wanting to live. I was on an express elevator to the bottom floor, wherever that might be.

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

At the end of the day, we're just trying to prevent each other from going mad.

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.

Every problem seems like a mountain to me, and when I'm fit, I feel like I can conquer anything. When the opposite happens, I go into a funk. A real, real funk.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

Even if I have to work, scheduling breaks where I disconnect from technology can be beneficial.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.