Quotes About Mental

The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down.

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.

I've forgotten more about bad putting than all the lousy putters in the firmament combined. My mind has been twisted into an incurable, disturbing venue of bad speed and inadequate line. I just want to go out and not feel like I'm putting a Rubik's Cube with a flimsy piece of rope.

By definition, to work with me, you need thicker skin and must be OK with a certain amount of verbal abuse!

A script is so word-heavy, after trying to communicate so much verbally, I think you need a different outlet to give the verbal centre of your brain a chance to cool off.

We grew up on Harold Pinter, Sam Shepard, Samuel Beckett. You're making something about men on the verge of a nervous breakdown, you're going to look to those guys.

I'm always on the verge of death in my head.

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

Where did phobias come from? Sachs wondered. Some childhood trauma, some genetic imprinting

Daily habits can anchor your thoughts and feelings just as readily as any spiritual practice or yoga class.

They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.

That was the deal basically: catatonia without; frenzy within

Pay no attention to the terrors that visit you in the night. The psyche is at its lowest ebb then, unable to defend itself. The desolation that envelops you feels like truth, but isn't. It's just mental fatigue masquerading as insight.

between addiction and depression? Depression a lot worse. Depression ain't something you just get OFF of. You can't get CLEAN from depression. Depression be like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your MIND. You just got to be careful not to touch where it hurts. It always be there, though.

If you used your head, if you became aware of how love was culturally constructed and began to see your symptoms as purely mental, if you recognized that being in love was only an idea, then you could liberate yourself from its tyranny

La depresión no es algo de lo que uno se quita. No puedes desengancharte de la depresión. Depresión es como un moretón que nunca se te quita. Un moretón en la mente. Tienes que tener mucho cuidado de no tocarte donde duele. Pero está siempre ahí

Mindfulness and mental effort would then be understood as a way of using attention to control brain state by means of the Quantum Zeno Effect.

This statement was tremendously gratifying because it stated, from a physicist's perspective, what seemed to me the essential core of all my OCD work: that effort itself is the key to altering one's brain function. Stapp's insight was that quantum theory naturally allows for the direct influence of mental effort on the function of the brain. It thus makes mental effort and its effect on attention a primary causal agent.

Avoidance itself is a compulsion.

This statement was tremendously gratifying because it stated, from a physicist's perspective, what seemed to me the essential core of all my OCD work: that effort itself is the key to altering one's brain function. Stapp's insight was that quantum theory naturally allows for the direct influence of mental effort on the function of the brain. It thus makes mental effort and its effect on attention a primary causal agent.

Intention governs attention, and attention exerts real, physical effects on the dynamics of the brain.

Damn it, I can't believe I'm going to let a choice in my life that's this major be dictated by OCD." This is assertive Relabeling.

Like all of modern science, the field of psychiatry, especially in its current biological incarnation, has become smitten with materialist reductionism, the idea that all phenomena can be explained by the interaction and movement of material particles. As a result, to suggest that anything other than brain mechanisms in and of themselves constitute the causal dynamics of a mental phenomenon is to risk being dismissed out of hand.

When your body becomes accustomed to a chronic state of anxiety, the positive physiological changes that happen after good news can, paradoxically, trigger the sense that something isn't right—simply because you're not used to feeling good.