Quotes About Mental health

If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.

They take antidepressants prescribed by their psychotherapists, confident that the biochemical and oedipal self can be treated in one room.

Under stress, they seek composure above all. But they do not find equanimity.

If we try to ignore the inner world, as most of us do, the unconscious will find its way into our lives through pathology: our psychosomatic symptoms, compulsions, depressions, and neuroses.

You are far from alone with your anxiety, no matter how it manifests.

Often meditation works this way: we measure its value in terms of the suffering that would have happened but didn't—thanks to the fact that we have a practice.

A person with low self-esteem is suffering from loneliness even when he is amongst large groups of people, whereas a person with high self-esteem is enjoying solitude out of choice. Loneliness is the pain of being alone, solitude is the pleasure of being alone. A person with high self-esteem is really saying I enjoy my company. I may be physically alone, but I am with myself.

I"ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.

Our hysterical patients suffer from reminiscences.

They don't commit suicide. They don't weep. But they can and do fall to pieces. They can and do have their hearts broken. They can and do lose their minds.

He thinks I suffer from depression. But I'm just quiet. Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years ago, I learned that flowers sometimes unfold inside themselves.

You may wonder why I haven't killed myself because living with madness or watching it flood the heart of someone we love is unbearable.

Never admit you have obsessive-compulsive disorder to someone who doesn't have it because they'll think you're crazy. But

Don't they give you happy pills in this place?

D. W. Winnicott, un psychanaliste et pédiatre anglais: "Se réfugier dans la normalité, ce n'est pas la santé." (p.96)

Whether people are besieged by a chemical imbalance or thrown into a panic or depression by a wrenching loss, their inconsistencies also belong to the self.

I talk about therapy a lot because I love therapy. It has just enriched my life.

The moment I fell in love with running, I started forgetting my grief and traumas.

Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.

I never understood the theory, once popular among doctors, that blamed mental disorders on too little or too much mother love. My own mother was my darling.

Why would I want to get depressed by watching TV? I could do that just by stepping on the scale every morning.

La cura para la ansiedad requiere pensamientos saludables. Tu desafío no es tu desafío. Tu desafío es la forma en que piensas sobre tu desafío. Tu problema no es tu problema, sino tu forma de verlo.

One study found that loneliness is as dangerous to one's health as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. It can lead to dementia or Alzheimer's