Quotes About Mental health

not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try and cheer them up. It makes us sick.

We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

In fact, research shows that the process of labeling emotional experience is related to greater emotion regulation and psychosocial well-being.

Worrying and anxiety go together, but worry is not an emotion; it's the thinking part of anxiety. Worry is described as a chain of negative thoughts about bad things that might happen in the future.

Tactical Breathing 1. Inhale deeply through your nose, expanding your stomach, for a count of four—one, two, three, four. 2. Hold in that breath for a count of four—one, two, three, four. 3. Slowly exhale all the air through your mouth, contracting your stomach, for a count of four—one, two, three, four. 4. Hold the empty breath for a count of four—one, two, three, four.

eventually our anxiety is compounded and made unbearable by our belief that if we were just smarter, stronger, or better, we'd be able to handle everything.

The American Bar Association reports that suicides among lawyers are close to four times greater than the rate of the general population. An American Bar Association Journal article reported that experts on lawyer depression and substance abuse attributed the higher suicide rate to lawyers' perfectionism and on their need to be aggressive and emotionally detached.

Well, no. They are both serious epidemics, but shame is a silent epidemic. People understand violence and can talk about it. We're still afraid of shame. Even the word is uncomfortable.

Disappointments may be like paper cuts, but if those cuts are deep enough or if we accumulate them over a lifetime, they can leave us seriously wounded.

Brown argues that play is not an option. In fact he writes, "The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

No. Shame and self-esteem are very different issues. We feel shame. We think self-esteem.

But Brown argues that play is not an option. In fact he writes, "The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

Avoidance, the second coping strategy for anxiety, is not showing up and often spending a lot of energy zigzagging around and away from that thing that already feels like it's consuming us. And

What's important to note about Pennebaker's research is the fact that he advocates limited writing, or short spurts. He's found that writing about emotional upheavals for just fifteen to twenty minutes a day on four consecutive days can decrease anxiety, rumination, and depressive symptoms and boost our immune systems.

Mindfulness requires that we not be 'over-identified' with thoughts and feelings, so that we are caught up and swept away by negative reactivity.

Shame is much more likely to be the cause of destructive behavior than the cure.

shame is highly correlated with violence, aggression, depression, addiction, eating disorders, and bullying.

there are studies that identify shame as the dominant emotion experienced by mental health clients, exceeding anger, fear, grief and anxiety.

An intolerance for uncertainty is an important contributing factor to all types of anxiety.

Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life-paralysis.

But the truth is, we can't handle it. We are a nation of exhausted and overstressed adults raising overscheduled children.

So, when we say that anxiety can be both a state and a trait, it means that some of us feel anxious mainly in response to certain situations, while some of us can be naturally more predisposed to anxiety than others.

At the same time sorting is on the rise, so is loneliness. According to Bishop, in 1976

Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day.