Quotes About Mental health

One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy - just not in the same moment that you're sad.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

My mother suffers mental health problems and has a learning deprivation.

By incarcerating someone who is homeless or addicted or who suffers from mental health challenges, we only further destabilize that person and create situations where they are more likely to commit crimes in the future.

I just want to say to anybody out there who suffers with chronic pain, I feel you. It takes over your life. It affects you emotionally, mentally, physically.

I'd definitely say I'm a depressive, someone who suffers from depression.

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.

Suicide is not a remedy.

I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.

My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.

I've been working for a while with a Scottish suicide prevention charity called The Joshua Nolan Foundation that brings the conversation about mental health into schools and provides free counseling for those who need it.

We decided to speak publicly about suicide because we wanted to make a difference in other people's lives.

When suicide hit my family, we learned first-hand that no one is immune from what is now the 10th leading cause of death in the US.

The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.

The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog.