Quotes About Mental health

If left untreated, depression can become serious. It can rob people from many hours of effective functioning—and sometimes rob them of life itself. At any given time, it is estimated that up to 20 percent of the population have disturbed daily functioning due to clinical depression. If you find yourself in this category and have experienced any of these symptoms for longer than two weeks, seek professional help.

Knowing the basics of what causes anxiety is crucial to becoming the master of your emotions.

No one can live in a constant state of emergency without paying for it later on with some form of physical disease.

Lethargics are to be laid in the light, and exposed to the rays of the sun for the disease is gloom.

Researchers from Harvard and the University of Virginia did an experiment in which they gave people a choice to be alone in a room, without anything—devices, books, papers, phones—or get an electric shock. 67 percent of men chose an electric shock.

2004 Centers for Disease Control study found that one in ten women take antidepressants such as Prozac. The National Sleep Foundation (yes, there is one) found that 63 percent of women experience symptoms of insomnia several nights a week. And one health care company reported that in 2004, 58 percent more women than men took prescription drugs to sleep.

Eighty percent of those she examined were found to have periods of "email apnea.

Det begynte altså med medisinskapet hjemme og Arzfelds Ritalin – og fortsatte med de samme og andre jeg fikk tak i – piller for oppstemthet, sovepiller, «selskapspiller», neddempende, maxiton, sjøsyketabletter og barbitus – samme faen – begge veier – alt gikk ned. Jeg ville være alle andre steder enn i virkeligheten – den ble for sterk.

Het vieze geheimpje van veel depressies. Eigenlijk is er een ander die gepijnigd en gestraft moet worden, maar omdat die ander onvindbaar is of omdat men beschaafd genoeg is om de ander met rust te laten, straft men zichzelf.

Excessive happiness! I never knew there was such a disorder. I didn't know you could be too happy.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Most poets are mad. It doesn't qualify us for anything.

I respond to about a quarter of comments. It's a good barometer of my mental health - when I'm healthy and busy, I don't read them.

We see people talking to themselves all the time. We always have. Particularly if they're homeless people or at all questionable, there's a sense of, 'That guy's crazy!' I see that now with a much more empathetic eye.

I don't read a lot of books but love magazines like 'Psychology Today.' It's great for getting quick facts.

Insurance companies, government agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry all push for mental health care that is brief, intermittent, and focused on quick fixes, despite the fact that many people struggle with emotional difficulties that can only be addressed over time using special psychodynamic skills.

When I turned 17, that's when it all got a bit too much. I decided to stop doing pretty much everything. I quit football. I wouldn't get up in the morning. I wouldn't go out of my room. I was very depressed.

I had had to quit a few jobs in North Carolina because of how anxious they made me.

I hyperventilate quite a lot.

I definitely think social media does cause this desire to be perfect. It can make kids feel like they've got quite a lot of the weight on their shoulders in terms of how they're supposed to be and what they're supposed to like and how they're supposed to act.

Quite frankly I don't know how to be happy. I have not a clue.

I think people can have a panic attack where your heart is racing, you get shakes and jitters. But you can also feel disconnected. You know what I mean? I can feel depressed.

I can't speak for everybody. But I will say that for me, when I've been depressed - and I get depressed. I have irrational bouts of anxiety. I have random FedEx deliveries of despondency. Just like, 'I didn't order this. Oh, well, keep the PJs on, cancel everything you're doing today. It's time to take a sad shower.'

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.