Quotes About Mental health

it is often best if benzodiazepine agents are used in conjunction with psychotherapy and when alternative agents have been tried and proven ineffective or poorly tolerated.

Benjamin James Sadock

Because insomnia may be a symptom of a physical or psychiatric disorder, hypnotics should not be used for more than 7 to 10 consecutive days without a thorough investigation of the cause of the insomnia.

Chronic catatonia does not respond as well to benzodiazepines. The definitive treatment for catatonia is electroconvulsive therapy.

frequently associated with bipolar disorder than with schizophrenia

which may include depression, paranoia, delirium, and seizures.

Benjamin James Sadock

The surest way to raise mentally healthy children is to cultivate loving, nurturing, and mutually respectful relationships with them. Loving means, first of all, accepting your child as a person. Every child has strengths and weaknesses, gifts and challenges. Loving means adjusting your expectations to fit your child, not trying to adjust your child to fit your expectations.

For a thinking person, the most serious mental illness is not being sure of who you are.

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.

I never finished looking at Twitter happier than when I've started looking at Twitter. And it's not because of abuse or anything. Even just refreshing what people are saying about you, I don't think is a healthy way to kind of perceive yourself.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

I sometimes feel less than empty; I feel non-existent. Still, I endure. I refuse to give up.

Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.

A lot of times, we don't seek the help. If you come from a family where you might have been abused, a lot of times, particularly with males, regardless of what the ethnic background is there's a sense of like 'Just keep it moving.'

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

I was bullied at school, and I let that get hold of me and withdrew into myself - I regret letting that happen.

When I feel like I'm getting overwhelmed, I take a break from my phone and social media to regroup.

I am a fitness lover; I believe a healthy body leads to a healthy mind and that's why I believe in being regular with exercise every day.

I make it a point to let myself have bad days on a regular basis.

Were I to put myself on... one of those online dating things, I would not include in my profile that I'm regularly hospitalized for psychosis. But I do know that when I get really bad, there is a place for me to go where I will feel better.

I go to the gym regularly, not just for the way I look but because it makes me less cranky, too.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

I do not work well when I am in living in a cyclone of panic. I reject actively seeking out destabilization and suffering as a creative model.