Quotes About Mental

People are craving not just physical space but the space to be mentally free. A space from unwanted distracted thoughts that clutter our heads like pop-up advertising of the mind in an already frantic world. And that space is still there to be found. It's just that we can't rely on it. We have to consciously seek it out.

A SIDE EFFECT OF depression is sometimes to become obsessed with the functioning of your brain.

Philip K. Dick wrote that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

It was depressing that he found it so much easier to question his sanity than my reality.

What sometimes feels like a trap is actually just a trick of the mind.

I am petrified of where my mind can go, because I know where it has already been.

That is why I write. I am just for ever running from madness.

The doctor says it's situational depression. It's just that I keep on having new … situations.

Is there no way out of the mind?" Sylvia Plath

Mental wellbeing counts as much as physical wellbeing - indeed, it is part of physical wellbeing.

If the madness is collective and the illness is cultural it can be hard to diagnose, let alone treat.

Si existe una manera de salir, una salida que no sea la muerte en sí, entonces el camino es a través de las palabras. Pero más que para salir de la mente por completo, las palabras nos ayudan a salir de una mente, y nos proporcionan las piezas para construir otra, similar pero mejor.

It's not clinical. The doctor says it's situational depression. It's just that I keep on having new…Situations.

Ha estado usted sometido a mucha presión últimamente? No entendía bien: ¿a qué tipo de presión se refería?, ¿atmosférica?, ¿gravitacional? —Sí —dije—. A mucha. Por todas partes hay presión de una clase u otra.

If you are scared when there is nothing to be scared of, eventually your brain has to give you things. And so that classic expression - 'the only thing to fear is fear itself' - becomes a kind of meaningless taunt.

And have you never walked into a room and wondered what you came in for? Have you never forgotten what you just did? Have you never blanked out or misremembered what you were just doing?

Of course, travel isn't always a solution. Or even an option. But it certainly helps me, when I get the chance to go away. I think, more than anything, it helps give a sense of perspective. We might be stuck in our minds, but we aren't physically stuck. And unsticking ourselves from our physical location can help dislodge our unhappy mental state. Movement is the antidote to fixedness, after all. And it helps. Sometimes. Just sometimes

as C. S. Lewis once put it, "The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say 'My tooth is aching' than to say 'My heart is broken.

Ik ben verlamd van angst voor de dwaalwegen van mijn geest, want ik weet waar hij allemaal al is geweest.

They have mental hospitals and body hospitals, as if one doesn't directly affect the other. And so, if they can't accept that a mind is directly responsible for the body of the same person, they are hardly likely to understand how a mind—albeit not a human one—can affect the body of someone else.

Maybe to be truly in tune with the modern world means anxiety is inevitable

So, we must conclude that madness is sometimes a question of time, and sometimes of postcode.

mental well-being counts as much as physical well-being—indeed, that it is part of physical well-being.

Our mind might make prisons, but it also gives us keys.