Quotes About Mentalhealth

I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is much suffering as a result.

I am bipolar, and I am a full manifestation of it in terms of my speech, in terms of my energy.

I'd spent my childhood thinking bad things, bad things every day. It had made me sick, but it had made me determined.

my uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

You have created a society in which it is very not okay to want to die—very not okay to be very okay with death.

I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human.

its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

My Tentacles have Tentacles and I'm never going to cut them off. But my Anchor, that's easy: it's killing myself. That's what gets me through the day. Knowing that I could do it. That I'm strong enough to do it and I can get it done.

IT's all about being able to live a sustainable life. I don't think I'm going to be able to have one.

Who hasn't thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it?

I work, Monica, and I think about work, and I freak out about work, and I think about how much I think about work, and I freak out about how much I think about how much I think about work, and I think about how freaked out I get about how much I think about how much I think about work. Does that count as a hobby?

You have a chemical imbalance, that is all. If you were a diabetic, would you be ashamed

It's so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself.

I thought . . . you haven't really lived until you've contemplated suicide. I thought like it would be good to have a reset switch, like on the video games, to start again and see if you could go a different way.

I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

Some days I woke up and got out of bed and brushed my teeth like any normal human being; some days I woke up and lay in bed and looked the ceiling and wondered what the hell the point was of getting out of bed and brushing my teeth like any normal human being.

I work, Monica, and I think about work, and I freak out about work, and I think about how much I think about work, and I freak out about how much I think about how much I think about work, and I think about how freaked out I get about how much I think about how much I think about work.

workin' day and night, slavin' so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Eithet they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.

Honestly, I feel like inside my soul, I'm very anti-social media to a point where I realized that I need to be active in part because of my profession, but I delete all of the social media apps on my phone daily.

Do not allow your brain to infect your mind with visions of ill health, problems, unhappiness, and conflict. You are in charge. Do not succumb to loading your brain with garbage.

An aha experienced decades ago by one of us is relevant to this point. Halfway through a grueling clinical internship, CP [Christopher Peterson] complained to his supervisor, "No one [meaning the patients] ever says thank you for anything I try to do." The response from the experienced psychiatrist stopped CP mid-whine: "If they [the patients] could say thank you, how many of them do you think would be in a psychiatric hospital?

He is always on the brink of suicide... because he seeks salvation through the routine formulas suggested to him by the society in which he lives.

No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.