Quotes About Mental health

I have a shrink in New York and a shrink in Arizona, just in case. You never know when you will have a breakdown.

I had a breakdown after making 'Atonement.'

I find talking about my breakdown really easy.

Sometimes, my anxiety is really dark. Like, I can't breathe, and feel like I'm having a heart attack.

If I'm in a social situation where I'm triggered, I go into the bathroom and move and shake and breathe.

I try to do the deep breathing exercises and I end up panicking in the middle of them and it never goes well.

For me, as many dark days as I have, I have bright days where I can achieve so much.

Bullying in 2015 has a whole new look. It doesn't ever end. It's 24/7.

If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

There are things I still criticize myself heavy for. There are days I have to pick myself back up, but that, to me, is success; it's getting to both sides: physical and the spiritual, mental. Just peace. Peace of mind.

Certainly there is such a thing as chemical depression, and for that, obviously, there are issues that psychotherapists are much more expert at speaking to, but I think there is a low-grade depression that actually prevails in our society. And most of us feel it.

All I can say to people who don't think depression is a real thing, or say 'just suck it up and get over it' - they just really have no idea. You have to give people the benefit of the doubt that they're doing the best they can to get through it.

I really wanted people to understand beating the stigma of, Hey suck it up,' is really important, because it's not as easy as that.

My biggest challenge was when I had my first panic attack at 27. It's not something you can ignore, you can't sit around and get sucked into a rabbit hole.

I know I'm a binge eater and it sucks... but I am still motivated and I know mentally I feel better when I physically eat better.

I think one of the scariest things about depression is that it exists along with the happiness and the joy, and it kind of plays with it and sucks the color from it.

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

When I believe, I am crazy. When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression.

I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it was a mourning.

Sufferers of depression have 'episodes' the same way those who suffer from multiple sclerosis do. It comes, wipes the floor with you, and then somehow returns you to the world. But it comes back.

When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder the year I turned 50, it was certainly a shock. But as a journalist, knowing a little bit about a lot of things, I didn't suffer the misconception that depression was all in my head or a mark of poor character. I knew it was a disease, and, like all diseases, was treatable.

I think I suffer from some mild depression.