Quotes About Mental health

Depression is a paralysis of hope. One thing I know is true. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.

I am growing to hate the vague declarations of psychiatric treatment, the airy cross-your-fingers pronouncements. The treatment of mental health is an inexact science. But, as I am slowly coming to understand, depression is an inexact illness.

The Buddhists tell us that in order to find yourself, you first have to lose your mind.

The Buddhists tell us that in order to find yourself, you first have to lose your mind.' It is one of the most consoling things anybody has ever said to me.

And in fact, psychologists draw a straight line of causation between chronic rumination and chronic depression. Dwelling on the negative and berating yourself is bad for your health, physical and mental. And the longer your mind is consumed with gloomy self-accusations, the worse you will feel.

If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

Loneliness is the biggest enemy of a human. Cause it is more than the enemy. When a person becomes lonely from inside, no one can save the person from sinking under the deep sea of end.

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

It is practically an axiom in psychiatry that precocious intellect combined with physical weakness can give rise to many unpleasant character traits - avarice, delusions of grandeur , and obsessive masturbation, to name just a few.

I am in a house. I am in one room and my anxiety is in another. It's close. I can feel it. I can go to it. But I won't.

She says it's like a switch - a big red PANIC switch - gets flipped in my head and I can't turn it off. She says we're going to figure out how to turn it off.

Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

Religion and art are both forms of madness, and madness is the realm of psychiatry.

What were you in a mental hospital for?" "Depression. But it was a long time ago.

Hospital and a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. His TED talk on the subject, "What Makes a Good Life?

When will you stop thinking of yourself as a burden?

You're way too young to be so miserable

I get to thinking, and when I get to thinking it's not always good

But Fiona had known even before she'd gone to a therapist or taken medications that no medical plan would work. Her behaviors had arisen purely and completely from the guilt and shame in what she'd done to Lana. After all, they hadn't existed before Lana—not even when Lana's teasing was at its worst.

When you're depressed you retreat and you go into a smaller world. This is why Brighton worked well for the story, because it's a smaller world than London.

I was told that I had very likely been clinically depressed for a long, long time, probably since I was 15, or even 14. It explained, to me at least, a lot of my behaviour over the years.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke.