Quotes About Mental health

Me and my mates are very, very close. We all talk about our problems - especially as we've got older. But I don't think a lot of people have that.

I'm a big advocate of meditation.

Without meditation, I'd probably be dead.

I think meditation is good for the self. Having that moment with yourself and your mind is essential.

Loads of people talk about meditation and what it can do for your anxiety and I just really struggle to do traditional meditation. When they say, 'Lay still and empty your brain,' the minute I lay still, is the minute I think about everything that's going on.

When I was younger - it might be a romantic idea - I always thought I might go crazy.

If I hadn't had the rugby field to get rid of my aggression I would have been locked up a long time ago.

If you live with a certain amount of dread for your own personal safety every day, that is anxiety.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

When I was a kid, I was mostly pretty sane. I've gotten more hypochondriacal.

I run every day. It keeps me sane and it's my meditation.

I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity.

I've had to find my sanity.

If I sat around thinking about acting all day, I'd lose my mind.

It's very scary having something wrong with your head.

When I was a kid, my mother was hospitalized, she was schizophrenic.

If I texted somebody that I was having a down day, in seconds I would have somebody either call me or show up at my door.

I owe it to those around me to keep sane. We all do.

I don't have a television in my house. I haven't owned one in years. In truth, it's about mental health for me. It's hard for me to have a television in the house because I'll just stay inside and binge-watch stuff that I don't even want to watch. I've learned when I don't have a TV, it forces me to go outside.

I'm not sure that the benefit - as a writer and as a citizen - that I would get from reading at least the front page of the Times every day or every other day would outweigh the depression.

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

Being mentally ill is not a joke. It is a most painful thing.

Mental health, although being talked about more and more nowadays, is still extremely misunderstood and stigmatized, especially in Pakistan, where people think ignoring or hiding the issue will make it go away.

It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of mental illness.