Quotes About Mental health

Angelo," he said, and felt the bed rock as Angelo shuddered, caught halfway between REM atonia - the inhibition of movement caused by the shutdown of monoamines in the brain - and waking.

If you have to constantly alter your natural mental state to survive a situation, doesn't it follow that the situation is toxic?

The darkest prisons were those of the mind.

It seems to me that really crazy people don't think they're crazy. Why would you?

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

You never realise what loneliness is until it creeps up on you - like a disease, it is, something that happens to you gradually.

Getting as much sleep as possible and following a healthy diet will stop you from feeling run-down if, like me, you're super-stressed.

While we're talking about my dreams, about how I'm gloomy and combative, and about displacing those feelings onto my pillow instead of my loved ones.

She counted on herself to withstand everything. And yet, who said she had to? What would happen if she broke down now and then?

The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.

I knew I was having a panic attack. I hadn't had one in a while, though, and I'd forgotton how they made everything like it- and I- was going to fall apart. How they reminded me of how trapped I was.

For who plans suicide sitting in the sun?

She knows that loneliness can kill people - in different ways can actually make you die. (68)

Personality disorder? Given the extensive and widespread array of human emotions, why was anything a personality disorder?

She would like to say, Listen, Dr. Sue, deep down there is a thing inside me, and sometimes it swells up like the head of a squid and shoots blackness through me. I haven't wanted to be this way, but so help me, I have loved my son.

She had spells of manic loquaciousness, followed by days of silence.

Cuando hay amor tenemos el antídoto clave contra la neurosis, porque la ausencia de amor es el ingrediente esencial para que prospere la neurosis.

We all know the internal trials of the soul react upon the body, rending its nerves and affecting its strength—" A broken spirit drieth the bones" (Prov. 17: 22);

Il capitano di lunga secca Mikko Heikkinen era fermamente convinto che una decisione importante e irrevocabile come quella del suicidio non andava presa a mente lucida, senza il conforto di un buon cicchetto.

It's like, when someone asks you how you are and even though you want to say that you feel like shit, that you're miserable, that you cry until you gag and spend most of your time imagining ways to kill yourself, instead you just say, 'Fine, thanks.

Don't chain your worries to your body. The burden soon becomes heavy and your health will give too much of itself to pick up the extra load.

A psychiatrist is the next man you start talking to after you start talking to yourself.

I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.