Quotes About Mentalhealth

In actual fact, boredom is now causing, and certainly bringing to psychiatrists, more problems to solve than distress.

the sudden loss of hope and courage can have a deadly effect.

we knew he had given up faith in his strength to carry on, and, once lost, the will to live seldom returned.

I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst.

I can understand why people jump off bridges.

Dopo un anno di terapia,il mio psichiatra mi ha detto,"Forse la vita non è per tutti

Depression and I are old friends but I do not court his company.

In the time of Philotimus, a notable Greek physician several centuries BCE, sufferers complaining of a light head were instructed to wear a lead helmet in hopes of a cure. Chrysippus of Cnidus, a contemporary, believed that people with depression should eat more cauliflower while carefully avoiding basil because it could incite someone to insanity.

Prison and the asylums had made me worse, not better. I had truly become a hostage of my past, condemned by my reputation and my fucked-up mind.

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live

You!' said the old man contemptuously. 'What do you know of the time when young men shut themselves up in those lonely rooms, and read and read, hour after hour, and night after night, till their reason wandered beneath their midnight studies; till their mental powers were exhausted; till morning's light brought no freshness or health to them; and they sank beneath the unnatural devotion of their youthful energies to their dry old books?

I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thoroughgoing illness.

Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edgeI'm tryin' not to lose my headIt's like a jungle sometimesIt makes me wonder how I keep from going under.

I live in my own little world. But its ok, I have a psychiatric disorder named after me." Quarantine.

It's all right to put the weight of the world on your shoulders sometimes, if you know how to take it off.

the numbers of service members we've lost to suicide is far greater than the number of service members killed by the enemy.

Look at PTSD as weight," she says. "If you're carrying, say, five pounds, you can fix that. If you're carrying five hundred pounds, you'll die.

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

People have said to me, 'What have you got to be unhappy about?' It's naive and it's hurtful. That person may not appear to have anything to be unhappy about, but anxiety and depression are illnesses.

Women attempt suicide more often because they want to become the priority of those they love rather than always prioritizing them.

Stop raping your feelings with thoughts!

Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.

I used to starve myself to death.

If you had more friends, maybe you wouldn't spend so much time with your demons.