Quotes About Mental health

I think I've always been regarded as a mentally strong person and a tough character, but it took me a while to reach a point where I realised that internalising your emotions wasn't doing me any good.

I'm scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

When you give your life over to your touring schedule, it's so grueling, you have to have moments where you have your own comfort places.

Mental health is personal for our whole band. As touring musicians, self-care can quickly become make it or break it on the road.

There is no tournament to win for mental health. There are no quarterfinals, or semifinals, or finals.

I support defunding the police - particularly the militarization of our police force and reallocating those resources toward public health. And not just health care but mental health support, affordable housing, education, alternatives to incarceration, non-emergency responses to those who might be in mental distress.

Mental health is an issue ailing everyone - it is so omnipresent in society, we must work towards making it better.

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

The best thing that I did was get myself out of an environment that was toxic to me and to my mental health. That was through retiring from football.

Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state.

Once you're in a position where you can choose to not be around toxic environments, just do that as much as you can.

The Cure wrote 'Boys Don't Cry,' and it's the same today: as a boy, you're not meant to show your emotions, but if you don't have a job or any prospects, you're going to be depressed, and it will be much worse if you can't express that. I hate the term because it's become a buzzword, but it's toxic masculinity.

Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself together to disintegrate.

Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.

You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Thinking you've had depression makes about as much sense as thinking you've been run over by a bus. Trust me - you know when you've got depression.

Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all productive.

There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

psychological factors

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

Did the two of you marry again? Please tell me yes. If he is my brother-in-law again, he is less likely to kill me for what I did." Bryony looked at her a moment, then leaned in and whispered in her ear. "He won't kill you. He just wants you committed to an asylum.