Quotes About Mental health

Voy a suicidarme, la comida de papá está en el horno.

Because 'achievers' have to be 'good,' they tend to keep their feelings under careful control, and they often suffer from ulcers or high blood pressure.

Despair is a concern of the Adult, while in depression it is the Child who has the executive power.

That as a smart person, whose brain races faster and harder than the next person's, you can't accomplish something like stopping your racing mind from worrying doesn't mean that you have a disorder or that you are a failure.

How can a person brim over with life energy and big plans one moment and feel suicidal the next? She can cycle exactly that way because of the god-bug syndrome.

This is the very thing that has driven people to suicide through the centuries. It is hopelessness made real, or to use Milton's famous phrase, it is "darkness visible,"15 a description that the author William Styron used as a title for his own poignant memoir on depression.

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.

When I asked my shrink if I was a control freak, he finished saying "Absolutely" before I finished saying "freak." I told him that I once worked with a woman who carried a remote control in her purse. Whenever she got worried or angry, she took it out and stroked it like a gerbil. My shrink said that if I keep comparing myself to severe neurotics, I'll think that anything is permissible.

Overeaters often say they are swallowing their feelings.

For people with eating disorders, food is both a poison and the remedy, but this is true for the rest of us as well. Food is an inescapable fact of life and the task for each of us is to find a way to make out peace with it.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.

He was well enough acquainted with popular psychology to diagnosis his ailment; depression was anger turned inward. After

my therapist constantly tried to convince me that the networking was a displacement activity to help me avoid dealing with my own emotional issues.

He was from Yorkshire or somewhere like that and, like many Northerners with issues, he'd moved to London as a cheap alternative to psychotherapy.

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

But then self-doubt has always been there for Billy, self-doubt and its cousin the berating voice, these faithful companions have always been on call to help him through the critical junctures of his life.

Nine men in ten are suicides.

The psychiatrists—Eric was among the youngest—often put these kids on Haldol; more than one came to me exhibiting, as a result of the mysterious pill, "tardive dyskinesia"—involuntarily sticking out their tongues, clenching and unclenching their jaws, smacking their lips.)

All these lacrimal events and bouts of depersonalization were no doubt leading, I was then convinced, to the onset of schizophrenia. Indeed, the irony of my recent cardiac diagnosis was that it gave me an objective reason for my emotional turbulences and so was, in that sense, stabilizing: now I was reckoning with a specific existential threat, not just the vacuum of existence.

those who suffer from gender dysphoria may not be suffering from societal bigotry, but from something far deeper and more dangerous, and that physical mutilation and stumping for tolerance will not solve their problems.

If you do not cure yourself of this temper, it will end in insanity, of which it is the symptomatic forerunner.