Quotes About Mental health

If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.

Today's generation has tremendous pressure to perform well at work. And if one can't match up to expectations then it can lead to depression.

Anxiety is a trap; it's not a trend to be followed. It's not supposed to be cool, it's meant to be fixed.

I myself have gone through a lot of trials and tribulations with insecurity and body dysmorphia, and stuff like that.

Diets are essentially training courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure.

Committing suicide is like stepping off the rollar coaster, once you are on, dont you wait till it ends? no matter what it does to you

Ten minutes of meditation a day, keeps the psychiatrist away.

Take control of your emotions before your emotions take control of you.

You are not your thoughts!! This simple yet powerful statement can greatly change the quality of your life.

You can be a nice guy that wants to kill himself.

Therapy is about every kids nightmare when people are telling you that you need to get help but all you really want is a hug.

Sadness, discomfort, frustration -- they are all valid human emotions. Why would we want to suppress them?

Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness.

its hard to talk when you want to kill yourself

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

No one commits suicide because they want to die.

I love this profession, but God, it can just destroy people, and I don't want that to happen and become some monster.

Suicide is a permanent decision to a temporary feeling.

think suicides are the saddest deaths of all. It means someone has decided that life has no part for them to play any more.

it must have been hard making a silent movie about a girl who hears voices.)

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they're going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

increase in serotonin

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.