Quotes About Mental

they do have a personality disorder, you can't expect them to act like a healthy, well-adjusted person. That sets them up for failure—and it sets you up for disappointment

There was nowhere to go in the house to escape my dark thoughts.

And men always seem to have a more difficult time compartmentalizing at these times than women, I've found. Women are stronger because they have to be.

Isn't that weird? It's the same with exercise, good nutrition, and a healthful sleep schedule. I think most people know that these are the low-hanging fruits of good mental and physical health. They grease the chute from which happiness may slide.

HOW TO GRIND YOUR DEADLIFT Mentally prepare for a steady, relentless effort, as opposed to having a speed mindset. Pre-tense. Pressurize. Squeeze the bar off the floor, don't jerk. "Lift the barbell powerfully-steady, applying a maximal effort along the whole lift." (Smolov) Aim for a constant, low, acceleration towards the lockout. There is more than one way to pull big.

An aside that will appeal to the well-rounded reader: A creative high that increases physical and mental work capacity is accompanied by noradrenaline secretion. Perhaps this explains why the samurai were equally proficient at war and poetry.

Boundaries aren't all bad. That's why there are walls around mental institutions.

Both condemnation and fear can cause a Believer to live in a condition of mental torment.

when your own goddamn brain starts fucking with you, you're not just fucked up a little bit, you're totally fucked up.

This led NIMH to conclude that excess dopamine is one of the reasons people's brains malfunction.

Mind is everything; muscle, pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

Thought-stopping is the process of using willpower to disidentify from and interrupt toxic thoughts and visualizations

The disease of emotional emaciation is epidemic. Its effects on health are often euphemistically labeled as stress, and like the emotions, stress is often treated like some unwanted waste that must be removed.

She's nice enough, but she's got the IQ of an artichoke.

A faith that rests on knowing, where you have to "know what you believe" in order to have faith, is disaster upon disaster waiting to happen. It values too highly our mental abilities. All it takes to ruin that kind of faith is a better argument. And there's always a better argument out there somewhere.

a) early attachment experiences may well be key moderators of the expression of individual genotype, and (b) the primary evolutionary function of attachment may indeed be the contribution it makes to the ontogenetic creation of a mental mechanism that could serve to moderate psychosocial experiences relevant for gene expression.

mental agency may be more usefully seen as a developing or constructed capacity.

understanding of the self as a mental agent grows out of interpersonal experience, particularly primary-object relationships

These factors may combine to make disorganized infants become keen readers of the caregiver's mind under certain circumstances but, we suggest, poor readers of their own mental states.

People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.

Hysteria defied self-control; obsessional neurosis mimicked it.

mental institutions, rural health clinics. Once, he met

In the transmissible mental disease of god ownership, the victim acquires the megalomaniacal delusion that a being supposedly representing all of his most desirable characteristics actually rules

The spirit of a man can endure his sickness, but who can survive a broken spirit?