Quotes About Mentalhealth

The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.

When one lives among madmen, one should train as a maniac.

He says the pills he's got her on will keep her from sinking too low. How low is too low, Roy thinks, and when can you tell?

Several fans around the world committed suicide.

affective instability, emotional dysregulation, and interpersonal sensitivity has little resemblance to classical depression. It is also the key feature of BPD

It turned out that for every category of traumatic experience you went through as a kid, you were radically more likely to become depressed as an adult. If you had six categories of traumatic events in your childhood, you were five times more likely to become depressed as an adult than somebody who didn't have any. If you had seven categories of traumatic event as a child, you were 3,100 percent more likely to attempt to commit suicide as an adult.

It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.

I was told by my doctor that I was suffering from both depression and acute anxiety. I had believed that those were separate problems, and that is how they were discussed for the thirteen years I received medical care for them. But I noticed something odd as I did my research. Everything that causes an increase in depression also causes an increase in anxiety, and the other way around. They rise and fall together.

People were, [Tristan Harris] warned, living 'on a treadmill of continuous checking.

A study by Professor Michael Posner at the University of Oregon found that if you are focusing on something and you get interrupted, on average it will take twenty-three minutes for you to get back to the same state of focus. A different study of office workers in the U.S. found most of them never get an hour of uninterrupted work in a typical day. If this goes on for months and years, it scrambles your ability to figure out who you are and what you want. You become lost in your own life.

Jiddu Krishnamurti, 26 who explained: "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.

clinical depression is an understandable response to adversity.

Cuanta más desigualdad hay en una sociedad, más extendida está toda suerte de enfermedades mentales.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. it can seem saner to give up - but then one goes insane from giving up.

So you must "receive" your demons, because when you fight them, you empower them.

Several times he prepared for suicide, asking his sword bearer to be his executioner.

Being locked inside the house plays on a psyche of any child and I believe the most important thing is the mental health of any kid.

Anybody who enjoys being in the House of Commons probably needs psychiatric help.