Quotes About Mental health

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".

Starting with a gray cloud of brain cells that was subject to storms and flash floods, I had to learn to make my own internal weather.

If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

According to the medical literature, I was a textbook case for posttraumatic stress disorder. During the day I can control my symptoms, at least to a degree, but not at night. That's when all hell breaks loose in my dreams.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

I've never been diagnosed with anything, I've self diagnosed myself with multiple personality disorder and DID.

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.

I had water phobia since childhood without any reason as such.

Social phobia, panic disorder... I've had panic disorder ever since I was young.

Burnout is a real risk, especially now when there is so much news. I take real breaks, put my phone down, get out in to the countryside and ignore the news - even if its just for a few hours.

Sport is one way of keeping kids off their phones.

Depression is a physical illness.

My long-term dream is to have self-education in schools for mental, physical, and emotional health because we need to learn how to speak to ourselves in a loving way and to each other.

If I'm feeling really, really crappy, it sounds so cliche, but if I wake up extra early in the morning and do some sort of physical activity, I usually feel a little bit better. Or I do other things that make me happy.

What I do now is I train in the mornings, and people ask me why I do it. I do it for two reasons: first of all, to keep in shape, but secondly, I think training, sport, and physical activity is really good for mental health.

Physical activity can help improve your mental health, as it helps to take your mind off things if you are having a bad time.

Why aren't we talking about it in health classes in school? That's just as important as learning about physical health and nutrition. Why aren't we learning about our minds and our mental health and mental illnesses? I just think that it's something that very much needs to go hand in hand.

I really believe that a child's mental health is just as important as his or her physical health.

I'm in my best shape when I'm really anxious, because I have to get to the gym. Physically I'm in the best shape.

There are times when I feel lazy and just want to stay in bed all day, but I know that working out is the best way to get those endorphins going, which will make me feel better emotionally and physically.

You can never just write off a person as crazy. I think that is the most inhumane thing you can do to someone without physically abusing them.

For people who deal with anxiety or depression or can't be in large social groups cognitively, emotionally, or even physically, phones help bridge the gap.

I'm aware that I am flawed. I'm aware that I have issues. I'm aware that I need to be able to be healthy, not just physically but mentally.