Quotes About Mental health

Whatever you did today is enough. Whatever you felt today is valid. Whatever you thought today isn't to be judged. Repeat the above each day.

The hours wear on, while the surreal atmosphere of the asylum does not wear off.

I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.

You don't have to be positive all the time.

The people I know that have the hardest time keeping it together emotionally are people that don't workout.

She was now eight-and-twenty, with no idea how to be happy except in brief moments, and no idea how to create happiness about her. She only knew how to retreat inward to avoid pain.

Don't let anyone drive you crazy. It's right nearby anyway, and the walk will do you good.

Everybody wanted to be depressed. But your depression was supposed to be funny, too, and that was what had proved too much for Dolores.

The difference between mad people and sane people," Brave Orchid explained to the children, "is that sane people have variety when they talk story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over." Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior

Yet little by little I learned to love my life. Though sometimes I had to run hard— especially from melancholy— not to be held back.

How about suicide rate. And what a shame to lose them after they've made it back. We keep them alive, but we don't teach them how to live.

many space psychology experiments these days focus on ways to detect stress or depression in a person who doesn't intend to tell you about it.

Not all that surprisingly, Holmes began to go insane, spending his final years in and out of institutions. At seventy, he was placing ads in mortuary trade journals for a rubber-coated canvas body removal bag that could, he suggested, double as a sleeping bag. Shortly before he died, Holmes is said to have requested that he not be embalmed, though whether this was a function of sanity or insanity was never made clear.

I make lists to keep my anxiety level down. If I write down 15 things to be done, I lose that vague, nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things to be done, all of which are on the brink of being forgotten.

You're overthinking it.' 'I have anxiety. I have no other type of thinking available.

The individual struggling with overwhelming emotions and DBT therapists will benefit significantly from this workbook.

It turns out that maybe breeding bonsai-tree children to become résumé zombies isn't so good for their mental health.

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

Depression settled down upon her, and although she tried to brush it away it thickened like a fog. ...But she felt lonely and deserted and futile. A mood like this has to be fought...

So much of anxiety was anxiety about having anxiety.

Anxiety does not ask your permission. Anxiety does not come when expected. It's very rude. It barges in at the strangest moments, stopping all activity, focusing everything on itself It sucks the air our of your lungs and scrambles the world.

That was something they taught you in anxiety therapy- the thoughts may come, but you don't have to chase them all. It was sort of the opposite of good detective work, in which you had to follow every lead.

People say depression lies. Anxiety is just stupid. It's unable to tell the difference between things that are actually scary (being buried alive, for example) and things that are not scary at all (being in bed under the covers). It hits all the same buttons. Stop. Go. Up. Down. It's all the same to anxiety.

How could she be anxious when everything was so cheerful? Very easily, as it happens. Brain chemistry doesn't care about how pretty things are.