Quotes About Mentalhealth

One of the great pleasures of mental health (whatever that is) is how much less time I have to spend thinking about myself.

Being crasy doesn't mean to be broken...It is you and me amplified, Girl, Interrupted

Or maybe I was just a girl, interrupted

The question was, What could we do? Could we get up every morning and take showers and put on clothes and go to work? Could we think straight? Could we not say crazy things when they occurred to us? Some of us could; some of us couldn't. In the world's terms, though, all of us were tainted.

Any way I slice reality it comes out poorly, and I feel an urge to not exist, something I have never felt before; and now here it comes with conviction, almost panic. I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again.

He just wanted to see what a girl who was crazy enough to kill herself looked like.

S?rça fanusun içinde ölü bir bebek gibi t?kan?p kalm?? biri için dünyan?n kendisi kötü bir düÅŸtür. Bir gün bir yerde -okulda, Avrupa'da, herhangi bir yerde- o boÄŸucu çarp?tmalar?yla s?rça fanusun yeniden üzerime inmeyeceÄŸini nas?l bilebilirdim?

Well, I tried drowning, but that didn't work; somehow the urge to life, mere physical life, is damn strong, and I felt that I could swim forever straight out into the sea and sun and never be able to swallow more than a gulp or two of water and swim on. The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.

I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

Y si mi tutora hubiera sabido cuán asustada estaba y cuán seriamente contemplaba posibles soluciones extremas, como el obtener un certificado médico que me declarara incapacitada para el estudio de la Química, en que constara que las fórmulas me mareaban y cosas por el estilo, estoy segura de que no me hubiera escuchado un solo minuto y me habría hecho hacer el curso a pesar de todo.

I may have had a straight A in physics, but I was panick-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

People who had never experienced suicidal thoughts didn't understand the seductiveness, the insidiousness of those thoughts.

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

It's important to remember that people can go off the deep end; it doesn't mean they have to stay there. And when they come back, it's nice to have a friend waiting with a warm towel.

periodic bouts of depression. Some of these episodes were brought on by his family's

Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house.

They thought I was mad, and Russians are always sympathetic with mad men.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Skipping meals is terrifically convenient: It gives one lots of time to brood and hate oneself.

I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.

Siz iyimserler, bunal?ml? bir insan?n onu neÅŸelendirmeye çal??man?z? istemediÄŸini anlayam?yorsunuz. Bu bizi hasta ediyor.

the most powerful need for numbing seems to come from combinations of all three—shame, anxiety, and disconnection.