Quotes About Mentalhealth

To not want to be alive is not the same thing as wanting to be dead.

working hard keeps you from going crazy

Viktor Frankl the Concentration camp survivalist said no matter how much mental or physical abuse had been given nobody could cause him to think something he didn't want to think

Suicide offers quick authority over a life that feels it has lost all agency.

Si no quieres acabar en un manicomio, abre tu corazon y abandonate al curso natural de la vida

You're not telling me anything I don't know already. 'Relax your body, and the rest of you will ligthen up.' What's the point of saying that to me? If I relaxed my body now, I'd fall apart. I've always lived like this, and its' the only way I know how to go on living. If I relaxed for a second, I'd never find my way back. I'd go to pieces, and the pieces would be blown away. Why can't you see that? How can you talk about watching over me if you can't see that?

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.

In order to not have to deal with being gay in the world, you have to control everything. You try and walk in an un-gay way so as not to be found out. You try to control every situation, check the people around you, that you're not in the wrong place, and that can be exhausting. It goes on for decades, and it becomes mental sickness.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

The way I was playing year-round was breaking me down physically and mentally.

I dealt with the tragedies to Gerald McClellan and Michael Watson. I only had peace when I was away training.

I have not had tragic incidences in my life that have rocked my personal being. The thing that really has been my biggest enemy in this world has been pressure. And people. People who I love. People who look at me differently. The pressure is tough, man. I'm not gonna lie. It's the hardest part. Easily.

Sometimes I'd literally show up at the gym having a panic attack, and my trainer would be like, 'All right, let's just go get breakfast.' I can't give enough credit to him... he was really there for me, and not just like a trainer where it's like, 'Well, come on, man, I gotta pump you up.' He cared more about my mind and the state that I was in.

Some days if I am not feeling great or I feel a bit down or anxious, I just go for a run and I instantly feel better. Despite all the technology we use in training these days, it remains an amazingly simple way to energise your mind.

I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn't exist anymore.

Experiences of BPM II are best characterized by the triad: fear of death, fear of never coming back, and fear of going crazy.

Ich war durch meine fürchterliche Situation gezwungen, diese Spaltung in ein Ich Schwarz und ein Ich Weiß zumindest zu versuchen, um nicht erdrückt zu werden von dem grauenhaften Nichts um mich.

Optimists often kill themselves when they realize they can't be optimists anymore.

I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy.

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

I paint or sketch for two, three hours every day. It keeps me sane.

There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.

I paused and examined Myself for signs of imminent madness or tendencies to self-destruction. Finding none, I read further.

People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can't answer the real question. All I can tell them is, It's easy.