Quotes About Mental health

I wonder at how many of us, feeling unsafe and unprotected, either end up running far away from everything we know and love, or staying and simply going mad. I have decided today that neither option is more or less noble than the other. They are merely different ways of coping, and we each must cope as best we can.

Mindfulness helps us see the addictive aspect of self-criticism— a repetitive cycle of flaying ourselves again and again, feeling the pain anew.

We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts.

He wanted to die, too, and I didn't even really know him. I don't think anybody did. How are you supposed to know someone who stares at his hands all day, and cracks his head open on a concrete wall?

Americans were endangering their mental and physical health through overwork," and all in pursuit of the dollar. "Life is not for learning, nor is life for working," he ranted, "but learning and working are for life.

If I wasn't writing poems, I'd be washing my hands all the time.

What do you have to worry about? That you're lonely? That you have a mortgage? That your wife doesn't love you? F you, F you. I have to worry about having enough to eat!

Dear friends, I am often a lonely man, Even in a room full of people who love me. Dear friends, my brain-- Unpredictable as it was--is even more unpredictable now. But thank God for all of the ways in which we compensate. For our deficiencies.

Hello," my doctor said. "Are you there?" "Yes," I said. "So, what's going on?" "There are irregularities in your head." "My head's always been wrong

Nick's right, you are psychotic. (Talon) The correct term is sociopathic and yes, I am. But at least I have no delusions about myself. (Zarek) Meaning? (Talon) Take your meaning wherever you can find it. (Zarek)

Writers. For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you go too long ignoring it, it builds up and then you do all sorts of weird things. Mumble to yourself. Nightmares. Day-dreams. Total anarchy and chaos. Before you know it, the writer is either sitting in corner feverishly humming to his- or herself or on Prozac. You're not on Prozac, are you? (Esther)

I'm sorry. I was just thinking of that stupid song, 'Seasons in the Sun.' You know, 'we had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.' Good grief, I should be a mental patient. (Cassandra) You have more strength than any warrior I have known. Don't ever apologize to me again for those few times when you show your fear to me, Cassandra. (Wulf)

Don't be stupid, Jess." – Abigail "Brains don't exactly run in my family. Suicidal lunacy, on the other hand…" – Sundown

I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to.

It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life.

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.

Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.

We must eat three meals a day, even if we're not hungry, and when we fail to fit the current ideal of beauty we must fast, even if we're starving.

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible.

Depression is very bad illness. This will be the toughest fight of my life.

Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been a really great thing in my life.

I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life.

Self-loathing is the silent hemorrhaging of the soul. You don't feel or see the life force fleeing until it's not longer there, and then, of course, it's too late.