Quotes About Mentalhealth

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Happy thoughts or wishful thinking won't cut it. Rather, the trick is to replace negative thoughts with more balanced thoughts.

Its ok to get depressed for a little while sometimes. Being sad can leave us stronger and better able to cope with life's challenge!

I remembered how in all the stories of my childhood the women were always hanging themselves.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Adam seemed clothed in a viscosity that slowed his movements and held his thoughts down. He saw the world through gray water. Now and then his mind fought its way upward, and when the light broke in it brought him only sickness of the mind, and he retired into the grayness again.

It is a sad suicidal course our species seems to have taken.

If you have a friend or a family member who's bipolar, or has panic attack disorder, or is depressed, read up on it a little bit so you can get to know where they're coming from.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

But for many people, a huge part of the energy goes into the struggle with complexes, fear, worries, anxiety, and the energy cannot be used to achieve goals and dreams

The world leaves you confused, stressed, broken down, and even suicidal at times, but you can't let the world get to you. You gotta fight through, and you gotta try your best to put a smile on your face.

It's not about forcing happiness, it's about not letting sadness win.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Being crazy doesn't annoy others that understand it, it annoys only the ones unwilling to try and understand.

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.

I loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.

Shame Sucker! You suck my joy away!You suck my fun away!You suck my happiness away!Shame, you suck!

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

You have to teach yourself to block emotions that do not benefit you in a positive way.

Who can destroy iron but its own rust, and who can destroy a person but his own mind?

Wanting to end your life while you are alive is worst than death it self!

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

These problems have been here so long that the only way I've been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively.