Quotes About Mentalhealth

You could take any four people, no matter how wonderful they are, and if you make them live together on a tour bus for eight years and don't give them any time off, after a while everybody gonna start going crazy.

My calendar was empty. Touring the way we did and having a schedule like we did institutionalizes you in a way where you don't know anything else. I think I went through the darkest depression I've ever felt in my life.

My new catchphrase is: 'Pull yourself together.' I've done the inner child, I've had analysis, I've decided that unless you're mentally ill and need support, it's up to you.

Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.

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Money was the root of all evil and recklessness was the root of all PTSD.

He lowered his eyebrows with disapproval as he took the phone. CeeCee's aunt Prudence suffers from delusions. Right, I muttered. Doctors. Everyone's got a disorder. Counselors, he shot back. Everyone needs therapy.

How is it possible for me to be so miserable and embarrassed and humiliated and beaten an function still talk and smile and concentrate?

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.

Guns aren't the problem; sick people are.

There's certainly a side of me that isn't completely... sane. Or completely 'even' all the time. We all have our dark sides.

'Talk to me,' it's what you say to someone to let them know you're there. Just three simple words. But saying them out loud could help save a life.

Here's a tip, Self. Do not argue with a lunatic. Arguing with a lunatic simply ensures that you'll climb into his craziness with him when what you want to do is take a big step back. He

One reason is that we are increasingly living in social isolation.

Based on the reading she'd done about rape trauma, Margie knew she wasn't crazy, but suffering from PTSD.

As the psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jamison writes, "There is a great deal of evidence to suggest that, compared to 'normal' individuals, artists, writers, and creative people in general are both psychologically 'sicker'—that is, they score higher on a wide variety of measures of psychopathology—and psychologically healthier (for example, they show quite elevated scores on measures of self-confidence and ego strength)

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

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

The sadness that overwhelms us, the retardation that paralyzes us, are also a shield—sometimes the last one—against madness

I do love Instagram, but even if I spend 15 minutes looking at stuff, I feel guilty.

'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.

may have resulted from abnormal wiring in the serotonergic system of his brain. Other

Because the problem with psychiatry is that you mostly study people who aren't doing so well, whereas if you spent a little more time studying people who are doing very well, it might give you some good ideas to help the ones who are not.

Some people seem to be so afraid of being alone with themselves and their thoughts that they have to be talking to someone on the phone constantly. And talking really, really loudly. It's as though they're trying to shout the quiet out of their lives. 'HELLO? YEAH! I'M ALL RIGHT, HOW ARE YOU?' And as soon as one call ends, they're desperately trying to call someone else before the silence settles back. 'HELLO?' It's madness.