Quotes About Mental health

I saw a psychiatrist when I was younger because I had ADHD, and I had some problems with authority, so I guess I can kind of relate to that in a way. I know what it's liked to be probed and to be asked questions where people are looking for a certain answer and are trying to pull something out of your answer.

Everything for us as a driver is related to our working, on your work and how you feel. It helps how you feel, how happy you are; also for your private life.

For anyone who can only handle about 12-minutes-per-day of anything news related before needing to retreat into isolation, allow me to recommend spending those 12 minutes listening to the opening monologue of 'The Rush Limbaugh Show.'

Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.

My anxiety has gotten worse as I've graduated and gotten older, and I still feel like 'Rookie' is a place where I can talk about that, and hopefully someone relates to it.

,what saved my life was my husband. He nursed me back to health, and he continues to do that to this day. It's not easy to be married and to have a relationship with someone with mental illness.

I went to a hypnotherapist and learned how to hypnotize myself and explored orthogenic training, how to relax each part of your body.

Godard and I got married because I got pregnant. Then I lost the child and they couldn't do anything about it. So I went to a kind of, not a crazy house, but a place where you have to relax. I hated it.

But if I go for a run somewhere, I feel the benefits of the endorphin release.

In 1997, a severe depression hit me, but I didn't respond well to anti-depressants.

You don't get hits if you're depressed.

I was 85 lbs. at my 2000 homecoming dance. But I wanted my collarbones and hip bones to show more. I'd feel my hip bones to make sure they were out. If not, I had more weight to lose. I lost my period until I was 17. I loved that. It meant I wasn't healthy, and I didn't want to be healthy.

I was copeless. Not just hopeless, but copeless. I tried to keep on working because I was ashamed of acknowledging the fact that I was depressed. You don't use that word.

When we anticipate, we're the happiest. Unless you're on antidepressants. The reason you take antidepressants is because you can't anticipate. You think everything's going to be horrible, so it usually is.

I'm a former bulimic myself and it's a horrible, horrible addiction.

I used to get these horrible feelings; like, I just wanted to rip my body apart, and I don't want to have to go through that experience again. It's really, really awful.

You don't want to wait until something horrible happens to get help. Admit that something's not right. You might not know exactly what, but you still want to go get it checked out.

I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways.

No matter how low I feel, I know I won't ever be as low as I was when I went into hospital because I managed to speak out and ask for help.

I spent a lot of time in hospitals for depression.

I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself.

One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.

I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.