Quotes About Mental health

Her sanity was a fragile thing, a butterfly cupped in her hands, that she carried with her everywhere, afraid of what would happen if she let it go - or got careless and crushed it.

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.

she had carried anxiety with her to work every morning and brought it home with her every night; a nameless, inconsiderate companion that had a habit of poking her in the ribs whenever she was trying to relax.

She didn't like to feel things so intensely. It reminded her of being crazy.

The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads, to let the demons out, to relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear.

The pills I take are a paperweight. All they do is pin the fantasies down. But they're still there, and any strong wind that comes along, I can feel them rattling around, trying to slip free.

You sure you're all right? You aren't out here pondering dark female thoughts are you?

neurotransmitters

Several fans around the world committed suicide.

The stress and worry weaken our immune system

Psychiatrists have enough work to do without expanding the boundaries of the disorders into the world of the "worried well" or of people going through a "bad patch.

Diagnostic fads simply relabel patients that psychiatrists have always seen.

Psychiatric diagnosis is at best a common language, and current categories should not be treated as "real.

What if depression is, in fact, a form of grief—for our own lives not being as they should? What if it is a form of grief for the connections we have lost, yet still need?

Eastern philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti,26 who explained: "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.

the core of addiction doesn't lie in what you swallow or inject—it's in the pain you feel in your head. Yet we have built a system that thinks we will stop addicts by increasing their pain. "If I had to design a system that was intended to keep people addicted, I'd design exactly the system that we have right now,

for each traumatic event that happened to a child, they were two to four times more likely to grow up to be an addicted adult.

Addiction is an adaptation. It's not you—it's the cage you live in.

extremely depressed people have become disconnected from a sense of the future, in a way that other really distressed people have not.

We live in a culture that is constantly amping us up with stress and stimulation.

The symptoms are a messenger of a deeper problem. Let's get to the deeper problem.

Loneliness hangs over our culture today like a thick smog.

We have been systematically misinformed about what depression and anxiety are.

One friend told me that she always knew her depression was lifting when she felt her sense of time expanding again