Quotes About Mental health

It was generally known, there was an epidemic of suicide among former soldiers.

The man is too narcissistic, too shallow and cowardly for suicide. Days

Even now she can't decide. She thinks about flipping a coin. Heads she goes, tails she stays. But isn't indecisiveness an early sign of mental illness?

There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.

They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.

They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can't kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment.

Ingenio: sutileza, perspicacia, chispa, inspiración, mente despejada y libre, no atada a condiciones previas asfixiantes. Distanciamiento: alejarse de uno mismo, alejarse del "yo" y sus inseguridades, del ego y su vanidad, poner la lógica entre paréntesis y tomar lo paradójico y lo incomprensible como punto de partida para crear humor en cantidades. Ingenio + capacidad de distanciamiento cognitivo = salud mental

La felicidad no es una estación a la cual hay que llegar, sino una manera de viajar". Esa es la salud mental: viajar bien.

La autoobservación es uno de los procesos mentales más importantes para el crecimiento humano, pero si nos excedemos en su uso, colocándolo al servicio de esquemas obsesivos y/o perfeccionistas93, la enfermedad psicológica puede prosperar fácilmente.

Qué nos impide ser asertivos? Aunque la ansiedad social es quizás el principal obstáculo para que la conducta asertiva pueda consolidarse35, 36, 37, no es el único factor. Las creencias irracionales y los malos aprendizajes también pueden influir negativamente

Las investigaciones muestran que los síntomas psiquiátricos de los adolescentes adictos a internet son muy parecidos a los de los jóvenes que sufren de abuso de sustancias químicas.

La felicidad no es una estación a la cual hay que llegar, sino una manera de viajar". Ésa es la salud mental: viajar bien.

sentimiento de culpa suele obrar como una forma de autocastigo que apunta directo al corazón, una especie de harakiri psicológico autodestructivo, donde se ataca a la persona y no la conducta específica:

Jonathan suffered from bigorexia, the body dysmorphia that occurs when a young man like Jonathan continues working on his physical strength, often temporarily magnifying it with steroids, in the hope that it will fill the black hole of his psychic wound.

The murder-suicide combination of school and other mass shootings is largely young white boys' way of driving off the cliff at the end of mental health's tortuous road. Consider three of the most notorious white male shooters: Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook), Elliott Rodgers (UC Santa Barbara), and Dylann Roof (Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston).

I've always been crazy but it's kept me from going insane.

To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

Typically, all it takes is a single life stressor to push one over the edge. It can be any devastating event, really—a car accident, job loss, bankruptcy, a terminal diagnosis, a child's drowning . . . Stressors like those can create considerable challenges for a mentally healthy person. But when fate inflicts that kind of pressure on someone who's already dangerously unbalanced . . . well, that's how killers are born.

Note that a loss of interest and pleasure in life is enough for a diagnosis of Major Depressive Episode—the presence of sadness, hopelessness, or depressed mood is not necessary.

if you suspect that you have a mental illness, there is no reason to be ashamed, or embarrassed, and most importantly, you do not need to be afraid. You do not need to suffer. There is nothing noble in suffering, and there is nothing shameful or weak in asking for help.

One of the best things I've ever done was take a close look at my mental health and accept that I wasn't doing fine.

They lived in a world where mental illness was equated with weakness, and shame, and as a result, I suffered until I was in my thirties.*

She knew that many of my blood relatives had mental illness, but she couldn't or wouldn't connect the dots.

I have no idea what depression even was until I was in my twenties, once I was pretty sure that I had it, I suffered with it for another fifteen years, because I was ashamed, I was embarrassed, and I was afraid.