Quotes About Mentalhealth

Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.

I think, when it comes to psychiatry, that a lot of people are overmedicated. I think when it comes to ECT a lot of people go through too much. I think there's a lot of guesswork in psychiatry.

I worked so hard for so long, filming literally 20 hours a day nonstop for several months. It was so tough - it really broke me psychologically.

I have a master's in psychology, and depression and anxiety are considered to be cyclical.

I'd like to see a show about what happens to young sports stars who've been pushed too hard by their parents or coaches.

People expect you to get golds and it puts so much more pressure on you and if you don't it's like you have let yourself down. It is nerve-racking.

Neither my sisters, who were nowhere near, nor I knew depression; we knew bad mood. We didn't know drinking as disease, but as character flaw. Weakness. We didn't know "dysfunctional," but we lived it. We knew that if you were miserable, you brought it on yourself. She taught us.

I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.

it was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: i'm giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.

Walk, run, cycle - When you live inside your head for such long periods of time, you have to open the windows, air it out a bit, let sunlight stream into all the dark and dusty corners of your mind.

I think windows are really important for the psychological health of crew members on long duration missions. It is nice to look outside, even if it is dark.

Nick can get up on stage and just wing it, whereas I would have to be taken to a mental institution.

The one thing about dealing with anxiety is normally getting to the gym, fitness.

Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.

Eddy tells me his book is basically an argument against suicide. Every page contains a reason not to kill yourself.

Maybe they thought they could make me go and commit suicide if they yelled loud enough. But either you have it in you or you don't.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

Anxiety is depression's good friend, and sometimes they party together

To want to kill yourself, however, requires a whole extra level of passion and a certain directed violence.

Suicide is not the result of passivity; it is the result of an action taken. It requires a great deal of energy and a strong will in addition to a belief in the permanence of the present bad moment and at least a touch of impulsivity.

You are in touch with the real terribleness of your life. You can accept rationally that later, after the medication sets in, you will be better able to deal with the terribleness, but you will not be free of it.

I didn't particularly want to die but I also didn't at all want to live.

Biology is not destiny. There are ways to lead a good life with depression. Indeed, people who learn from their depression can develop a particular moral profundity from the experience, and this is the thing with feathers at the bottom of their box of miseries.