Quotes About Mental

Meditation means cultivating a non-judging attitude toward what comes up in the mind, come what may.

Chris would use the spiritual aspect to try to motivate us. He'd tell us to think about all the evil in the world, all the hatred, and imagine ourselves running against the forces of darkness, the evil wall that was trying to keep us from running our best. He believed that doing well was all mental, a simple matter of harnessing whatever energy was available.

Anything that gets you out, that gets you physically active, is going to be good psychotherapy and stave off winter problems.

Trying to prove you're not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you're not mentally ill,' said Tony.

I closed the manual. "I wonder if I've got any of the 374 mental disorders," I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed myself with twelve different ones.

The killer's name was Michael Stone and he was a known psychopath. He had previous convictions. But the law stated that only patients whose mental disorders were considered treatable could be detained beyond their prison sentences. Psychopaths were considered untreatable and so Michael Stone had to be free.

Even sleep offered no respite from my mental disorders. There was Nightmare Disorder, which is diagnosed when the sufferer dreams of being pursued or declared a failure. All my nightmares involve someone chasing me down the street while yelling, You're a failure!

I thought about my own over-anxious brain, my own sort of madness. Was it a more powerful engine in my life than my rationality?

I wonder if I've got any of the 374 mental disorders," I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed myself with twelve different ones.

complicated human behavior was increasingly getting labeled a mental disorder.

the madness business is filled with people like Tony, reduced to their maddest edges.

Tony faking his brain going wrong was a sign that his brain had gone wrong.

madness that didn't involve mania or depression or psychosis. He called it 'manie sans delire' – insanity without delusions.

It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder.

Trying to prove you're not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you're not mentally ill

Tony said just being here can be enough to turn someone crazy.

if a person was overcome by a violent madness he'd involuntarily start to sound like someone from Louisiana.

And maybe this was what craziness was: an emergency valve to relieve the pressure of unbearable anxiety.

You can think of me thinking of you, because that's what I'll be doing whenever you think of me.

The shame and disorder in his house were like the shame and disorder in his head.

How like a mental illness a nation's economy was!

Michael had gotten sick amid the ruins of a demolished system. The wall dividing many things—including the asylum and the street—had come down while we were growing up. So had the distinction between severe mental illness and what Freud called "the psychopathology of everyday life.

I've thought myself out of happinessone one million times, but never once into it.