Quotes About Mental health

Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.

Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.

The Mental Health Reform Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in 2016. It was one of my proudest moments in Congress.

Depression is so exhausting - it takes up so much of your time and energy - and silence about it, it really does make the depression worse.

Instead of silencing artists, is it possible that antidepressants can actually help them vocalize their creative ambitions?

Depression and anxiety may be real. But they can also be Resistance.

Pain was better than anxiety any day of the week and sweat was better than depression.

I've never been a big fan of exercise. I just can't think of any other way to feel good. Kinsey Milhone

The quality of our love relationships is also a big factor in how mentally and emotionally healthy we are. We have an epidemic of anxiety and depression in our most affluent societies. Conflict with and hostile criticism from loved ones increase our self-doubts and create a sense of helplessness, classic triggers for depression. We need validation from our loved ones. Researchers say that marital distress raises the risk for depression tenfold!

Sociologist James House of the University of Michigan declares that emotional isolation is a more dangerous health risk than smoking or high blood pressure, and we now warn everyone about these two! Perhaps these findings reflect the time-honored saying "Suffering is a given; suffering alone is intolerable.

But we are now starting to realize that traumatic stress is almost as common as depression. More than 12 percent of U.S. women in a recent large survey reported having significant post-traumatic stress at some point in their lives.

We need emotional attachments with a few irreplaceable others to be physically and mentally healthy — to survive.

Researchers say that marital distress raises the risk for depression tenfold!

Depressed people do things they wouldn't ordinarily do.

I had got where I talked to her all the time. Like I would say, I didn't hear her talk back, so I hadn't lost my sanities.

large wave unexpectedly knocked me off and shoved me under. Before I could surface, another wave pushed me down, then another. But this is not a game. This is my life. The darkness tunneling back and back. I could lose myself to depression.

If one really stopped to think about the insane way the universe is arranged one would go mad in no time, so now and then it's good to laugh, it's therapeutic, it dilutes the pain

Hypocrisy saves one's sanity. It's the shield you hide behind when the truth is too terrible to face

that you never let a client leave your office if you have any sense that she may do herself, or someone else, harm.

Grief is natural, but when left alone it grows into something bigger. Something that steals hope. You shut down and no one gets in. The walls get bigger.

Darrelyn had told her to simply observe her children. To listen without judgment. That was her homework for this week. To take her medication, to count to ten before allowing herself to wash her hands and to listen.

You still have a therapist. Always. And as you can probably tell, I like talking. Dr. Schneider's like a friend who charges by the hour. I'd be your friend for free.

Based on the reading she'd done about rape trauma, Margie knew she wasn't crazy, but suffering from PTSD.

The expected mental health consequences of forcing a woman to carry her rapist's baby to term, and having to raise it despite an uncertain future, were well documented. Could be, she'd end up crazy after all.