Quotes About Mental health

I wanted to be a psychiatrist.

I used to see a psychiatrist in New York but I got bored.

Working with the psychiatrist and then a mental health counselor helped me understand my own thought distortions.

You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist.

I always wanted to be a psychiatrist.

I just feel very lucky to be able to write fiction because I think, otherwise, I would have had to spend a fortune on a psychiatrist - and I still wouldn't get 1/100th of what I get writing fiction.

You can go into a psychiatrist sometimes and just feel that this person's only role and their only desire is to write you a prescription, get a check and send you out the door.

Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.

I personally hate psychiatrists. When I was a kid, I saw quite a few of them, and they ruin everything.

Psychiatry causes so much death.

Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressant medication, or the nation of America itself came into being.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

If I was sugar-free, I'd be psycho.

Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.

We live in a society in which female weight is both fetishized and also under so much scrutiny. And so trying to shame somebody into losing weight is just such, I mean, an emotionally, psychologically and mentally traumatizing way to coach somebody.

I have started seeing a psychologist to try to help me think positively.

I am a psychologist. That's my training.

I don't feel bad about telling somebody I see a psychologist. I don't feel that you should feel bad about improving yourself.

I think I'm lucky in that I can park things. I don't dwell. I've got a selective memory. I only remember the good things. I don't know what a psychologist or a psychiatrist would say about that.

I want to be a psychologist.

The idea of going to the psychologist, for anyone who has any problem, is associated with something negative. I think everyone sees it that way when it's really a very important thing.

My book 'Things Get Better' has normalised the idea that it's OK to fail and it's OK to seek professional help from psychologists.

It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me. Because, quite rightly, the impression the American public has of psychologists is, 'You want to know what's wrong with me.'

I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.