Quotes About Mental health

Depression is very real. It'll back you into a dark room, slap you across the face, spit in your eyes, scream in your ears, and punch you in the gut - Until you give in.

Some might say that suicide is for cowards. I dare them to hold a razor to their wrists and say it as they slice into their own flesh.

Guess what often brings about anxiety. The voices in your own head, also known as the inner critic or the critical inner voice.

By applying actual words with significant specific diagnostic meanings to much lighter circumstances, people are robbing and devaluing people with mental illness.

My unique brand of depression responds to stress; specifically, it blows up under stress. When the going gets tough, I don't get amped up, I get despondent

You can't achieve your way to happiness. You can't win your way out of depression. This does not prevent smart people from thinking that way.

Much of what torments us is often just flickering images, in particular the unfavourable assessments about life (and ourselves) that we make. As we watch that self-critical movie in our minds, we reproach ourselves over and over. Self-acceptance is about quitting this shabby movie theater and stepping outside into the sun.

Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.

Mental health is, in great measure, the gift of self-forgetfulness. The reason is that introspection destroys what matters most to us- the authentic experience of great things outside ourselves.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

If the modern world were a patient in my care..." She shook her head. "I would diagnose it suicidal.

Lonely people have cruel thoughts.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

When we are lonely we not only react more intensely to the negatives; we also experience less of a soothing uplift from the positives.

This had happened before. She had remembered, only to see it all slip away. She had been insane, many times.

President George W. Bush recommended mental health screenings for all school-age children. In April 2002, President Bush launched the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. After supposedly conducting a

I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.

Stress results from long periods of suppression.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.

If you are chronically down, it is a lifelong fight to keep from sinking