Quotes About Mentalhealth

I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

People shave their heads all the time.

Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents. Otherwise we'd suffocate. - Hiroshima Mon Amour, Marguerite Duras

every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat! --- ANTONIN ARTAUD

De onzekerheid maakt me gek. Alles is onzeker. Er is geen houvast. En daardoor wordt ook het denken onzeker, mijn gedachten zijn een hel. Alleen de dood is zeker. Alleen de dood kan mijn gedachten stopzetten. Daarom wil ik dood. Op dat soort momenten.' 'Het is een illusie te denken dat de dood een oplossing is.' 'Die illusie is op dit soort momenten aangenamer dan het leven.

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.

Strach je užite?ný," vysvÄ›tlil jí kdysi její psychiatr. "Strach posiluje naÅ¡e obranné reflexy. Ale panika je k ni?emu.

My highs can be very high, but my lows are often still very low. I have never forgotten the feeling of the railings under my hands. The cold metal, the rush of traffic, the lorry horn. It is always within me. Always part of me. I was a slip away from tragedy. I know I am still.

manic depression is the result of the sum of repetitiveness in life and expecting a different result.

While skepticism is healthy, cynicism, real cynicism, is toxic.

There's nothing worse than being alone when you aren't strong enough to face your own thoughts. You can stand it just so long, and then––Well, then you just can't be alone any longer. You've got to do something, no matter how silly it is. You've got to make yourself believe you aren't alone, even if you are.

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking

I suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicted to jogging. It might sound odd but a lot of good has come out of it. My fans send letters saying they have taken up jogging because I do it.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

In my way I must be a fighter, since I have not succumbed to my ruminations.

A civilization which began with the cathedrals has to end with the hermeticism of schizophrenia.

Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

Like diabetes, she referred to it. Diabetics take insulin. In the same way, people with bipolar disorders took lithium, and alcoholics went to AA. Diabetes is the all-purpose analogy in my culture. Everybody has some form of it that needs to be tended on a maintenance basis. No one is ever cured, no one gets all the way well.

Negative thinking never bit into me when I was working or in the company of friends, but after long hours alone I would be bombarded by doomy thoughts.

How can the people in power not understand that a sick schizophrenic doesn't have the tools to cope with such a confusing world? How can we be so rich and so idiotically poor all at once?" "I know," Eldora says again.

I always pick myself up by doing a dance session. I turn on really good music and have a lot of food and mentally I just take that time to cocoon and rebuild myself.

It's always been something that I'm so able and willing to talk about that it's kind of foreign to me that people hide their depression and anxiety.