Quotes About Mental health

Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

Psychiatrist to patient: Maybe you don't have a complex. Maybe you are inferior.

A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.

The reality is that life, for all of us, is pretty stressful and we all need ways to cope.

Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

He's too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.

What I've learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.

I said I would never go to a psychiatrist, and I spent much of my life in psychoanalysis.

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to watch myself when I get isolated for too long.

Ingrown anger is like an ingrown hair. The pain it creates in life is unbearable.

Divorce is one of the most stressful life events anyone goes through.

I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences your choices in every aspect of your life.

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.

Those struggling with life-threatening thoughts do not feel connected to others. They feel all alone- even alone in the midst of a crowd.

If you ever lit a cigarette in your life, you have very little will to live.

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.

Anxiety has afflicted me all my life.

I can't forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen," I said. "I'm a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small.