Quotes About Mentalhealth

The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.

If being crazy means having a hard time adapting to the world as it is (a definition that I agree with), then society is crazy."1

Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.

The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.

I very classically would go into manic phases, which were as dangerous, if not more so, than the depressed phases, and I think I'd come up with the best ideas I ever had, and then the next day, I'd look at them and be like, 'This is nonsense,' because it was born out of a manic episode. What a waste of time.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

There's nothing wrong or weak about seeking a therapist. I have a therapist.

I just want to send a message to my fans saying that it's OK to admit that you need help, and it doesn't make you weak.

I believe resilience is the most useful human quality, and I've sought to cultivate it, but in 2019 I felt my resolve begin to weaken at times as it has never done before.

I play golf, and I play chess, and sometimes I go to the gym. On the airplane or between acts when I do the performance, I play Candy Crush to forget what happens around me, just to be alone, not thinking... You need to clear your brain.

Comedians are not well people. Well people are not drawn to creating.

It is hard to keep your head sometimes. I just make sure I surround myself with good people.

I get depressed pretty easily but have found the best way to combat it is to surround yourself with people you can talk openly with about it.

Sometimes I feel surrounded by this dark cloud, and it feels like I can't breathe. It's nervousness and I don't know what else.

Escapism is survival to me.

I like swimming or go to the gym, but I am alone a lot, and that can get a little depressing.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Where would the memoir be without bipolar writers? I mean, that's what - that whole oversharing thing is really a very clear symptom of bipolar disorder. And I'm not saying that every, you know, I'm not accusing every memoirist of being bipolar. But I think in a way it's kind of a gift.

As Karen's story shows, affirmations can help overcome fear and anxiety, and even panic disorders.

I'll either get a medal or get committed.

Now I had no choice but to live in the broken world that my mind had forced upon me.

lost a great innocence when I understood that I and my mind were not going to be on good terms for the rest of my life. I can't tell you how tired I am of character-building experiences. But I treasure this part of me; whoever loves me loves me with this in it.

Feeling normal for any extended period of time raises hopes that turn out, almost invariably, to be writ on water. I

Decreased sleep is both a symptom of mania and a cause, but I didn't know that at the time, and it probably would not have made any difference to me if I had.