Quotes About Mental health

As sociedades modernas vivem tempos insanos. A serenidade é um artigo de luxo

Los profesionales en salud mental son poetas de la existencia. Tienen una misión espléndida, pero no pueden colocar a un paciente dentro de un texto teórico; sin embargo, sí pueden insertar un texto teórico dentro de un paciente. No encuadre excesivamente a sus pacientes entre los muros de una teoría, ya que así reducirá sus dimensiones. Cada enfermedad es propia de un enfermo. Cada enfermo tiene una mente. Y cada mente es un universo infinito.

Se a sociedade nos abandona, a solidão é tratável, mas, se nós próprios nos abandonamos, ela é quase incurável.

Às vezes me sinto um louco falando para pessoas falsamente saudáveis – confessou Marco Polo. – Uma voz solitária gritando que, se treinamos dirigir carros, empresas, operar computadores, deveríamos treinar dirigir a emoção e gerenciar nossos pensamentos para sermos minimamente autores de nossa história. Mas simplesmente nenhuma escola ensina isso. Deixe sua mente irresponsavelmente solta que o risco de se acidentar e adoecer será grave.

Uno de los mecanismos psíquicos que más transforman la ansiedad vital en una ansiedad asfixiante es la hiperconstrucción de pensamientos. Quien tiene una mente agitada, quien es una máquina de informarse y de pensar, sobrepasa los límites saludables de movimiento psíquico y desarrollará el Síndrome del Pensamiento Acelerado.

El rechazo de una idea negativa podrá hacernos esclavos de ella. Rechace a una persona, y ella dormirá con usted, arruinándole el sueño. Perdonarla resulta emocionalmente más barato.

Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath ' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.

It takes no deep insight to see that the source of both our well-being and our maladies lies within our own hearts and minds. To change our experience of life we must inevitably change our hearts and minds, or rather our heart/minds.

Solitary meditation doesn't cause mental imbalances, but uncovers them.

Sarika couldn't always tell if a manic high or a depressive low was sneaking up on her.

To me, I don't write when I'm depressed. If I'm depressed, which is actually rare, I'm not doing anything, you know, and I'm not able to do anything.

Almost everyone seems to worry about something, and yet, we rarely talk about worry as a problem. Maybe that is because worry is so integrated into the way we have come to live and be in the world that we don't even notice it.

Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It's serious.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

You see a lot of depression among injured sports stars who would rather be reaching their goals or at least doing what they love doing.

Being sad and being depressed are two different things. Also, people going through depression don't look so, while someone sad will look sad. The most common reaction is, 'How can you be depressed? You have everything going for you. You are the supposed number one heroine and have a plush home, car, movies... What else do you want?'

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Acting is an incredibly gratifying, creative experience when you're doing it. But in the off-season, you want to scratch that itch, and writing has become that to me. It's a really pure form of creativity. It's good for my mental health in the same way reading books is good for me. It makes the day brighter.

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

I hope that people who don't believe depression is a real thing will stop calling people crazy, because that's dismissive and not a medical diagnosis.

You have these people that fight wars for their country, and then they come home and they need to attend to their mental health, and they can't get a job. That's a real thing.

You realise fame is something that if you court it too much or if you indulge in it too much, it will have a negative effect ultimately on your mental health and self esteem, because fame is ultimately about achieving positive self esteem through external factors, and that's a losing game, I would say.

This ain't bad-guy talk, cos I'm not a bad guy. But people don't realise what fear can do. I've had situations where I've been so scared, where I can't sleep, I can't eat, and it's gone on for weeks and it's ruining my life. It makes you sick, it makes you mentally ill.