Quotes About Mental

qué poco sano era sentir la ausencia de vida, no solo en esta casa sino en todas partes, y no reaccionar ... Antes eso era una señal de enfermedad mental. La llamaban Ausencia de respuesta afectiva adecuada ...

If there's one thing that contemporary psychiatry has shown, it's that. Merely knowing that you are mentally sick won't make you well, any more than knowing you have a heart condition provides a suddenly sound heart.

I don't trust him. You know, he's crazy. And when you're around him you're crazy too.

it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane

Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.

He sat down and collected his thoughts. They were quite easy to collect, because there weren't very many of them, and they all concerned the same subject--what a burden his life was.

Lo de «aprender a pensar» en realidad quiere decir ejercer cierto control sobre cómo y qué piensa uno.

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

Age, mental illness, and failure are all in the mind. They put the pain there to let you know it hurts.

the conviction in the minds of many people that cryptology is a black art, a form of occultism whose practitioner must, in William F. Friedman's apt phrase, "perforce commune daily with dark spirits to accomplish his feats of mental jiu-jitsu.

That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through all the silent parts.

Faced with an impressive and rapidly developing scientific image of the human animal, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that our mental states -the thoughts that we think, the passions that move us, and the decisions that mould our lives- are consequences of physiological processes ocurring in our brains.

I have the same answer all the time: My doctor told me not to think about these things.

It is not thoughts or facts that are painful but the feelings that accompany them. Thoughts in and of themselves are painless, but not the feelings that underlie them! It is the accumulated pressure of feelings that causes thoughts.

Madness is madness and genius is genius, and any similarity is purely coincidental. Comparing the two is like comparing normal cellular growth to cancer.

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean you can easily rebuild it. The Chamber of Unreasonable Guilt is part of my mental architecture, and I doubt that I will ever be able to renovate that particular room in this strange castle that is me.

She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a balanced life with down days and miseries to keep the sharp edge on her work. But the idea that an artist needed to suffer to do her best work was a conceit of the young and inexperienced. The happier she grew, the better she wrote.

People who were perfectly sane on Tuesday sometimes go nuts on Wednesday.

I think I have advanced ADD.

Many people talk about the mind-body connection and how what we think can affect our physical self. What I have found, even more than the mental connection, is that the emotions rule the body.

I don't want to sound like a whiner here, but if you get beat up all the time, it affects you.

If you don't feel clean, it affects everything you do; you can't even focus right.

It's just a matter of sometimes the CTE in your brain affects what happens in your life... and sometimes... it does not.