Quotes About Mental health

Depression catches everyone who lives long enough to be caught.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life, it seems to me, in the modern world. We're all depressed.

In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder.

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice.

I think that most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.

Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.

Someone can be mentally ill, but if they are young and beautiful and their life is going well, people don't notice because at that point the cracks are almost imperceptible.

I want to believe that happiness might at least be possible later on in life for people prone to sadness.

In 2012 a landmark German study found that vegetarians are considerably more likely to have mental disorders than people who eat meat.

What some of these critics may not realize is that frequently abduction experiencers have already been subjected to intense investigations of their abduction-related symptoms by physicians and various mental health professionals seeking a variety of neurophysiological and/or psychological and emotional explanations, sometimes with frustrating and even damaging effects (see, for example, the cases of Scott, Sheila, and Paul in this book).

these patients have little trouble recognizing that they are the kind of perfectionist, highly responsible people who generate a lot of subconscious anger and anxiety in response to the pressures of everyday life.

I am sure antidepressants, drugs, and liquor have their place. But so far, that place is in others, not me.

I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.

I was a coward. I said it aloud to myself: you are a coward. I didn't care. It was better to be a live coward than a dead madman.

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

Whenever you read a cancer booklet or website or whatever, they always list depression among the side effects of cancer. But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying.

Remember kid, you're only as sane as the people you choose to love. Manny, Miracle at Margari Park

In Britain, doctors now use exercise as a first-line treatment for depression, but it's vastly underutilized in the United States

exercise has yet to be embraced as a medical treatment. It doesn't simply raise serotonin or dopamine or norepinephrine. It adjusts all of them, to levels that, we can only presume, have been optimally programmed by evolution.

One of the first symptoms of depression, even before your mood drops to new lows, is sleep disturbance. Either you can't get up or you can't get to sleep or both.

People think of exercise in terms of physical health, but not mental health," says Jennifer Shaw, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Brookline, Massachusetts, who is a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School.

The Zen Buddhists have another way of saying pretty much the same thing: meditation is not something you think about; meditation is something you do. Same with well-being. No matter what ails you, you are not going to think your way out of it or read your way out of it. Living well is something you do. So then it's not something we

Edward M. Hallowell, MD, author of Shine