Quotes About Mentalhealth

If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven't been paying attention.

I never went to a psychologist or psychiatrist in my life. Never. You know, Italians are a little prejudiced against that kind of thing.

Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

I think drugs and alcohol aren't a wrestling problem, it's a life problem, it's a people problem.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Overwork is this decade's cocaine, the problem without a name," says Bryan Robinson, who has written widely about the phenomenon and estimates that as many as 25 percent of Americans have the addiction.

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Clinical descriptions and Epidemiology

Edward spends every night reaching for unconsciousness as if it were a rock in the middle of a river, while a fierce current pulls him away. His fingertips sometimes

My mother says that smart women are always crazy.

Since it looked like this was going to be my new normal, I might not be using the straightest ruler when it came to measuring crazy.

Val is a bachelor farmer in his seventies, so he should, by rights, be half mad.

It was pretty rocky last month but I didn't want to depress you with my depressions. I lack contentment. No. I lack a mother.

Some of us have spent our whole lives committing suicide. And some of us survived.

People often get very entangled in their work and life, so de-stressing is very important to keep generating fresh ideas and provide satisfaction with one's activities.

Fighting to get up in the morning, fighting to get on stage, fighting to make music that makes people feel good when I don't - that's been a struggle.

If people fit together, they fit for a reason. It's usually the sickest part of one person fitting into the attraction of the sickest part of another.

The interesting thing about depression and anxiety is that, it's not always wholly negative things that bring them on. Often times, those heavy swings of emotion can be brought on by just anything that is overly emotional.

Ten days before I started my job at ABC News, I checked myself into a mental health hospital.

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.