Quotes About Mental health

surprisingly sharp discontinuity that begins around birth-year 1995. She calls those born in and after 1995 "iGen," short for "internet Generation." (Others use the term "Generation Z.") Twenge shows that iGen suffers from far higher rates of anxiety and depression than did Millennials at the same age—and higher rates of suicide.

at least a depressed person will usually admit she's depressed. Curing hypocrisy is much harder because part of the problem is that we don't believe there's a problem.

According to Twenge, the primary cause of the increase in mental illness is frequent use of smartphones and other electronic devices. Less than two hours a day seems to have no deleterious effects, but adolescents who spend several hours a day interacting with screens, particularly if they start in their early teen years or younger, have worse mental health outcomes than do adolescents who use these devices less and who spend more time in face-to-face social interaction. G

Clinical psychologists sometimes say that two kinds of people seek therapy: those who need tightening, and those who need loosening.

Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless. ANDREW SOLOMON, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Therapist's dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

You crazy or something?" growled Zucco. "It's come up in therapy.

My dad is the kind of dad who tried to eliminate himself. My dad's story is all too common, because when we don't fit in, many of us believe we shouldn't exist, and we try, as my dad did, as I did, to disappear.

The higher the levels of anxiety, the more likely a person is to have a high IQ. Genetic research suggests that intelligence may have co-evolved with worry in humans

I'd hire an accountant or lawyer with an anxiety disorder over one without any day of the week.

Leider and Webber stress that big transitions aren't DIY projects and that, as Webber told me, isolation kills. "It's pretty lonesome inside your own head," Webber said, when I spoke with him about the project. "Everybody's life is an experiment of one, but nobody should have to go it alone.

Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.

Thoughts of suicide are common symptoms of combat PTSD. Paradoxically, they are also signs of life. If a person enters the zombielike state of indifference beyond despair, rage, suicidality, and fear, he or she simply dies. This is the testimony of concentration camp survivors and combat veterans. The ability to kill oneself is the bottom line of human freedom. Many combat veterans think daily of suicide. Knowledge that one has this freedom seems to be sustaining.

Learn the psychological damage that war does, and work to prevent war. There is no contradiction between hating war and honoring the soldier. Learn how war damages the mind and spirit, and work to change those things in military institutions and culture that needlessly create or worsen these injuries. We don't have to go on repeating the same mistakes.

I smile. "You were always so good at not covering up." Penny's smile is sad and a little off. "It's the antidepressants. They've obliterated whatever filters I have left.

When you live with voices in your head, you are drawn inextricably to voices outside your head. Very often the voices work to confirm your worst suspicions. Or think of things you could never have imagined! There are only so many hours of the day to hate yourself.

It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're probably just normal and normal-looking but that's not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just accepting that you're probably normal-looking, lacks the force field of self-disgust. If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in.

Taquipsiquia» es una palabra que yo no conocía. La oí por primera vez en labios del primer psiquiatra del que fui paciente, un hombre tierno y humano a quien guardo gratitud. La taquipsiquia es como la taquicardia, pero para la actividad mental. Los pensamientos son erráticos, discontinuos, estridentes. Se agitan en todos los sentidos, demasiado rápido. Se arremolinan e hieren. Son vrittis pero centuplicados, una tempestad de vrittis, vrittis bajo el efecto de la cocaína. Esto

en la actualidad afecta a una gran parte de la población, incluyendo, tal como se viene estudiando durante los últimos años, a las amas de casa, especialmente si además trabajan también fuera del hogar.

La idea platónica es que uno de los peores modos de enfermar estriba en la alegría exagerada y el dolor desbordante, ya que en ambos casos el individuo está frenético, fuera de sí, y no es capaz de reflexionar tranquilamente. Esta

Una de las tareas más importantes de la psiquiatría es la psicoterapia: el medio por el que el psiquiatra cambia y modifica los mecanismos negativos de la personalidad de un individuo para hacerla más equilibrada y madura, pues encontrarse a sí mismo es la puerta de la felicidad. En

Hay una novedad en la psiquiatría americana: los sujetos adictos al psicoterapeuta son personas que sufren crisis de identidad, no se encuentran a sí mismas, están perdidas o no saben cómo son ni lo que quieren en la vida.

mientras el depresivo está triste, la personalidad depresiva es triste. La