Quotes About Mental health

Some people are medicating themselves all the time so that they don't have to embrace themselves. If you can't feel, you can't embrace.

I went through this difficult time [in the 1984] when we were making our third record where I kind of lost my mind. That's when the bulimia kicked in. And that's when I got really freaky.

Running is my solo time; working my muscles outside in fresh air is therapeutic.

We live in a crazy time. Every other week, there's a school shooting. There's always some nutty thing and I've always wanted to kind of understand the crazy.

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

Time is what the depressed and panicked lack.

And I'm okay, I really am, most of the time. But sometimes, I'm just not.

Writing isn't a career choice. It's self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives.

When you've been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn't have to act perfect all the time.

Most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

The worst old age is that of the mind.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

People shave their heads all the time.

The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.

I think that this media online stuff makes us all sick. We think we have to be online all the time.

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.

I went through so many things personally, emotionally and mentally during that time off that I know that I'm better for it now and I think I'm a better athlete because of that.

I was anorexic-bulimic when I was 16-17. It was a top secret that time, but these things always are.

The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

I've not been able to avoid periods of time where I felt super-lonely. Luckily, I have a side that is able to always see the glass as half-full.

I go crazy if I'm not working. I find it harder to have down time. I don't know what to do with myself. I need to be working on this job otherwise I go insane.