Quotes About Mentalhealth

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

It's true what they say, you know: if you talk to God, you're religious; but if you hear from God, yor're schizophrenic.

It's as if to be interesting, you had to be depressed and messy, but that's complete nonsense.

Sometimes I think, 'Why couldn't I have been normal?'

If I'd found out that Norman Mailer liked me. I'd have killed myself.

We're all lonely, but I'd rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that's why people kill themselves, really.

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

So I'm not crazy?" "No. Your brain is doing exactly what you would expect it to do considering what you lived through.

Even as an adult, as I tried to sleep, my mind was conditioned to stay in a constant state of arousal, prepared for attack.

He was getting to the point that he didn't understand why tax attorneys didn't just kill themselves.

You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop.

Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you're light in the head. But I reckon it's all right to talk to a dog since most folks do even if a dog don't understand and cain't answer if he did.

Why are you by yourself? I'm not by myself. I'm schizophrenic.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

Maybe you inherited craziness like you did brown eyes or frizzy hair, I thought. Maybe you just went nuts and did that sort of thing if your mother got a divorce and a new boyfriend.

I think I have an extremely aggravated case of paranoia

As much as we complain about other people, there is nothing worse for mental health than a social desert.

I don't like to look out of the windows even--there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper as I did?

The front pattern does move—and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!

I don't like to look out of the windows even—there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper, as I did?

Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, - to dress and entertain, and order things

I am not allowed to want to die anymore. Believe me, I have tried.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.