Quotes About Mental health

I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depressed in their lifetime. This should be more than a gold mine for pharmaceutical companies - it should be a wake-up call.

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

If I look at the one thorn that is in my side, of all my life, it is my weight. I fret about it, I'm anxious about it, being an actor on television - it drives me insane. It just seems to be something that plays a central part in waking up in the morning and thinking, 'How am I with myself today?'

I can't deal with waking up and being sad.

I will alway support anybody being vocal about their mental illness, how they're dealing with it, and how it affects them. And I'll always support people waking up and paying attention to that.

I had a routine of waking up, going on Twitter, searching for the worst things I could about myself.

I was just at a point where waking up every day was a struggle. Coming out of every training session and wanting to cry, and having no confidence, not believing in myself and it's kind of this vicious cycle of focusing on all these things that I couldn't control and it was just eating away at me and pulling me down and I just wasn't happy anymore.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

I have OCD and, literally, walking on the left, needing things to be in even numbers with few exceptions. One and seven, any number that ends in seven, that's all me. All the tics like the pulling of the ear and scratching of the palms, all me.

Walking is great because it's an amazing exercise, and it also helps to clear your head and relieve any built-up stress before the work day begins.

If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.

Some people are ok with doing nothing all day after they retire, but then some people if they had nothing to do would go mad and start banging their heads against a wall.

Many people could benefit from meditation.

I was going through a divorce so I wasn't having the best time, but I wasn't going to the doctor for Prozac.

My ex would know not to talk to me until I came back from running. I'd always be in a better place.

Worry is a big part of my life. I definitely worry a lot.

Acne has always been a big problem of mine.

If you can't pay your bills, it has a really tough effect on your mental state.

I'm kind of effectively bipolar.

Not bipolar, but I lean towards manicness and then lowness.

My blood pressure was always up from just overworking.

I don't think it serves anyone to bottle emotions.

When I had a mental breakdown I was 26 and the most important thing before that was my work. And I still adore it. But it was all that mattered and everything else was secondary: my relationship, my family, my own health.