Quotes About Mental health

While I'm counting with the Count, I list the reasons why I wish the pills had worked. 1. I wouldn't have to face going back to school. 2. I wouldn't spend the rest of my life being known as the girl who tried to kill herself and failed at that, too. 3. I wouldn't have to remember, and so, because of that, and here's the biggie: 4. I wouldn't have to feel. Anything. Ever again.

Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.

That's my problem, actually. I don't talk to anybody about what's going on in my head, because I'm afraid they might not be able to take it

Depression is hard to describe not just because it is complex and abstract but also because it occupies the part of us capable of describing things.

Well, you are a privileged character. You're the only man living whose mother lost her mind and died.

She'd never have to cut herself again. She carries a knife inside herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed.

you are certainly wrong when you classify suicide—and suicide is what we are talking about—as any sort of great achievement, since it can be defined only as a sign of weakness. For it is certainly easier to die than to stand up to a life of torment.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

once you were in, they put a note in your file that said you were in therapy, and all your teachers saw that file. They might as well have tattooed CRAZY on your forehead. The next year every teacher would be watching you for the first weird thing you did—and has there ever been a kid who never does anything an adult considers weird?

Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.

The first is that fourteen major mental illnesses are now treatable. Two of them are curable, either by specific forms of psychotherapy or specific drugs. The two curable ones—people always ask—are probably panic disorder and blood and injury phobia. So the first great thing that psychology and psychiatry did in our lifetime was to be able to relieve an enormous amount of suffering.

Third, we are able to look at the causal skein of mental illness and unravel it, either by longitudinal studies—the same people over time—or experimental studies, which would get rid of third variables.

Worry descends upon the worrier like a fever. Without appropriate treatment, that febrile anxiety burns away at the soul. With such treatment, the fever may break. Only then can the worried become well.

The more depressed and maladjusted you are, the more likely it is that you are seeing things right, with minimal bias

Every person in therapy has a love disorder.

others.We must be good stewards of our physical and mental health while at the same time carefully avoiding the things that can trip us up. In these ways we accomplish our first strategy to live well till the end.

If you're hurting, don't be afraid to seek the help you need! Speak to someone - it may just change your life.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third Prozac pill shot down my throat and catapulted me into a world called sane.

Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.

My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad's life.

Suicide is like the ejector button in the cockpit of an F-15. If life goes into a permanent tail spin, it's nice to know the option is there.