Quotes About Mental health

There are almost forty-three thousand suicides every year in America (more than the number of deaths from either breast cancer or auto accidents), yet only about half of the people who take their lives have ever received mental health treatment. "Broken" does not seem too harsh a characterization of such a system.

the spike in environmental alarmism comes at a time when anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising within the general population, especially among adolescents, in both the United States and Europe.67 Seventy percent of American teenagers call anxiety and depression a major problem.68

Psychiatrists have long warned against giving money to the mentally ill homeless addicted to drugs, and yet that is what San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other progressive cities do. "It is not only clinically incorrect," said the director of psychiatric services at San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, "but almost sadistic to give money on a regular basis to people who have a demonstrated inability to handle cash funds.

Anyone can be crazy. That's usually just because there's something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?

That sounds weird: kill yourself. It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you.

Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.

It's a really crappy feeling to realize that your entire outook on your life can be controlled by some little pill that looks like a Pez, and that some weird combination of drugs can make your brain think it's on a holiday somewhere really sweet when you're standing naked in the middle of the school cafeteria while everyone takes pictures of you. Metaphorically. Or whatever.

It's a really crappy feeling to realise that your entire outlook on life can be controlled by some little pill.

To understand the essence and workings of insanity, Gallus Vibius strained his mind so that he tore his judgment from its seat and could never get it back again: he could boast he became mad through wisdom.1

The language of psychiatry is a monologue of reason about madness

I once wrote a biography of Albert Einstein, called Einstein's Cosmos, and had to delve into the minute details of his private life. I had known that Einstein's youngest son was afflicted with schizophrenia, but did not realize the enormous emotional toll that it had taken on the great scientist's life.

different parts of the brain as it thinks. By tracing the path taken by our thoughts, MRI scans have shed new light into the nature of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, schizophrenia, and a host of other mental diseases.

That is the healing. Three simple points: the truth, forgiveness, and self-love. With these three points, the whole world will heal and will no longer be a mental hospital.

Going for a walk is always helpful for me. I also love gratitude exercises.

I think love could have saved Kurt Cobain.

Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

I look hot and, most of all, skinny. I love the day after throwing up. I felt like a feather.

My life's accomplishments? Sanity, and you.

This is the most exciting study there is. It is the only thing I know of in life that makes you feel consistently better, whether it's success or failure, whether they love you or hate you.

Love is not an antidote of depression or loneliness, but it itself is a cause of depression and loneliness.

Just fancy! He is only nine-and-twenty, and he has an immense lunatic asylum all under his own care.

pues no estar bien del todo es una enfermedad

I sometimes think we must all be mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.