Quotes About Mental health

When you're depressed, everyone has an opinion about what you should do. People seem to think that not only are you depressed, you are also stupid.

In the psychological literature, depression is often seen as a defense against sadness. But I'll take sadness any day. There is no contest. Sadness carries identification. You know where it's been and you know where it's headed. Depression carries no papers. It enters your country unannounced and uninvited. Its origins are unknown, but its destination always dead-ends in you.

Suffer from depression. That's right. It is suffering. A person does not just have depression. She suffers from it.

Call someone 'a schizophrenic' or 'a borderline' [and it] lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the person is, rather than only telling us how the person suffers.

I look at other people and think, He lives without meds. She does. What is wrong with me? Am I so biochemically screwed up, so neurotic, so narcissistically self-absorbed that every hour is an obstacle course for me?

hold out your right hand, palm up. Imagine a 2-inch-tall version of yourself in a military uniform, with a whip in one hand and a gun in the other, stomping around in your palm, shrieking deeply personal insults and commanding you to lose weight. This is the Dictator.

Just remember you're not alone here." I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

But you've got to do it in the end. You have to end up with somebody. Because otherwise you go mad, or you start worrying about going mad, which is even worse. You can't go on sleeping alone.

Suicide is the night train, speeding your way to darkness.

Hypomania is protective. Hypomanic insensitivity prevents others' negative reactions from interfering with and decelerating the creative flow.

LINDA, resigned: Well, you'll just have to take a rest, Willy, you can't continue this way. WILLY: I just got back from Florida. LINDA: But you didn't rest your mind. Your mind is overactive, and the mind is what counts, dear.

In general, nine-tenths of our happiness depends on our health alone.

On the other hand, I must mention that, by a diligent search in lunatic asylums, I have found individual cases of patients who where unquestionably endowed with great talents, and whose genius distinctly appeared through their madness, which, however, had completely gained the upper hand.

It is this which makes suicide easier: for the physical pain associated with it loses all significance in the eyes of one afflicted by excessive spiritual suffering.

Lose your dreams and you Will lose your mind.

Thinking made her throat ache. That was a good reason not to think about seeing a psychiatrist.

If any link between psychology and the full moon exists, it would seem to be protective.

He found the bullets for the gun and contemplated suicide.

Once again, the salient risk factors seem to be social rather than physical.

after pondering suicide, Goodman called Neff at his office.

I lost my sister, Gennie, to my silence and her pain and despair, to both our angers and to a world's cruelty that destroys its own young in passing - not even as a rebel gesture or sacrifice or hope for another living of the spirit, but out of not noticing or caring about the destruction. I have never been able to blind myself to that cruelty, which according to one popular definition of mental health, makes me mentally unhealthy.

I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.

I couldn't help but think, This car is taking me to a mental hospital and my mother is treating it like open-mic night at a Greenwich Village café.