Quotes About Mentalhealth

I have sad. But that's not the same as problems. Problems are something you have to figure out a way to solve. You can't solve sad.

it's a funny thing about your darkest moments. They have a life of their own. They come around because they've got you pinned. Because they can. The harder you try to push them back into the shadows, the stronger they grow. They draw power from your resistance.

If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.

When I can't sleep I count the buckles on my straightjacket.

When I heard that Helen drank a bottle of whiskey and shaved off all her hair, I thought, This is it. She's going to kill herself. But of course I underestimated Helen. Stronger than her will to die was her will to endure, especially when she thought she was being tested.

Everybody gets depressed; it's totally normal.

Going to school, it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function.

The thing that happened in Washington -- it happened. All you can do is just grow from it. That took a toll on me. That was probably -- I think if I could've bounced mentally out of that situation faster than I did, I would probably still be in the NBA. But since I couldn't understand why they were trying to treat me like that, I basically gave up. I just didn't want to be a part of it anymore.

This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed.

the majority of all tranquilizer prescriptions are written for women.

I will not make a scrapbasket of my mind.

if we never stretch we snap like a brittle twig and that's true both physically and mentally

DON'T LEAD A DOUBLE LIFE. Everything you do takes up space in your brain. If you live a double life (and you know what I mean if I'm talking to you), then that extra life takes up neurons and synapses working overtime. The brain can't handle it. It starts to degrade instead of grow.

Choosing to avoid uncomfortable feelings offers immediate short-term relief, but avoidance can lead to long-term consequences.

I had uncontrollable panic attacks and paralysing negative thoughts about anything and everything.

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.

I survived schizophrenia.

I've said before, 'gymnastics is abusive,' but now I know it's not the sport that's abusive - it's the culture that was created and accepted and normalized.

The contrast of being in the spotlight when you're very young and then suddenly not can be really bad for your mental state.

There is no formula for winning any show. One just has to be at ease and mentally stable.

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.