Quotes About Mentalhealth

I have a definite psychosis in being with people. I cannot bear it very long.

Emotional resilience comes down to how quickly we recover from upsets. People who are highly resilient—who bounce back right away—can have as much as thirty times more activation in the left prefrontal area than those who are less resilient.

If you want to make a real difference for psychiatric illness like depression, you have to do something before the kids get sick in the first place," Kovacs commented. "The real solution is a psychological inoculation." EATING

Why do people avoid being alone? Because only few are in good company when left with themselves.

Even though sometimes you can control your anger, you can't control your sadness.

Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.

I have never heard of a suicide that I expected.

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair

What she had done over the past year had required an equivalent expenditure of energy to a year-long sprint, and when she thought of it that way it was obviously an unreasonable thing to do. Remaining sane--clinging and grasping at it, seeking to please a propriety constructed by people whose boyfriends had never killed themselves--was in fact the most insane thing she could have done, and anyone properly equipped by the right kind of experience would understand that.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

The iron is the best antidepressant I have every found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the body and the mind have been awakened to their true potential, it's impossible to turn back.

Besides, my usefulness here is destroyed because all of my friends think me a man of unsound mind.

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things.

I think it's becoming cool to have mental toughness or to meditate. It's a thing, but I don't think people really understand the value of it.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've always been an athlete, and I'm one of those people who start to go crazy if they don't run or do something.

I'm very grateful that I had work to do. I may have thrown myself off a building.

Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to.

Shutting out the depression strengthens it. While you hide from it, it grows.

We need to laugh and laugh loud because this is the only way to handle stress.

Posttraumatic stress is something that's always existed. I think that the earliest recording was during the Trojan War, but it's only recently that we're beginning to be aware of it.