Quotes About Mentalhealth

Schizophrenia is without a doubt the most dreaded psychological disorder. If depression is the common cold of psychological disorders, schizophrenia is the cancer." The cancer.

I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

deaths of despair escalating in terrifying ways as people struggled with the dislocation and isolation that the pandemic had caused.

Playing an unstable, bipolar, multiple-personality-disorder person is definitely up my alley.

If you make one thing your life and soul - as much as football is my career and main focus - then it turns into a very mentally unstable place to be.

Boxing definitely has a part to play in taking away unwanted aggression.

When I get time off, my brain is just, that's it. I sit. I veg. People will think that I'm upset or not happy, but I'm just exhausted. I'm just zoned out.

You have to train your brain to be positive just like you work out your body.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

There are lots of people who work out and aren't at all powerful in terms of their mind or their spirits.

Even though I'm often crazy - and I am, and I know it - still I fight it because I know how sterile, how futile, how bleak... nothing grows from it, and you, meanwhile, only grow into it like a snail.

Everyone's got issues. There's a stigma in football that you earn a certain amount of money, how dare you have issues.

We need to break the stigma around depression.

When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

The opposite of play isn't work. It's depression.

As someone who read exclusively nonfiction for nearly 15 years, I can tell you two things: It's not productive to read two fact-based books at the same time (this is one), and fiction is better than sleeping pills for putting the happenings of the day behind you.

Why Exercise Is Important to Stan Aside from the self-image and performance aspects: "It also puts discipline in the day. I find that if the day is terrible, but I worked out, at the end of the day I'll go, 'Well, I had a good workout,' almost no matter what happens. When

Anna Fels. "Should We All Take a Bit of Lithium?" The New York Times (Sept. 13, 2014).

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

I want to make it so that it's OK to not be OK.

Upstaged by a schizophrenic, Dallas said. The story of my life.