Quotes About Mental health

'Take Shelter' is a tough movie because there's no humor in it, so there's really no way to judge how you're doing - whether people are still with you or not.

My sadness compels me to hide it so that people won't judge me. Seeking help would have blown my cover. Meanwhile, my mania convinces me that it's making me fun so I'll want to dive further into it. Seeking help would've ruined that good time.

The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

When people dont know exactly what depression is, they can be judgmental.

I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the matter with me. It was as if I'd died or something. Now that I go to a clinic and get the right kind of medicine, I am not as depressed as I used to be.

Before I got on full-time medication, I believed that my mental disorder was the reason I could create so much and create well, because it made me crazy. I could go to these dark places and then come out of it and just be human again.

I've had people tell me that I should just be sad and not joke around on Twitter, but they don't understand that joking and being deeply sad are very close to each other. I'll have a horrible memory that I find hysterical one day, and the next day I'll cry about it.

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

I have bad days, days when I just don't want to do anything. Just kind of want to lay in bed.

If you just kind of let yourself stay alone and be by yourself, the negative, it is just not going to help you.

I am depressed sometimes, but it's not what keeps me at home or focused on work.

Golf is hugely important, as it keeps me going.

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

I don't know if this is the same for everybody, but for me, sometimes I get depressed, where I wake up and I can feel a change. Something went wrong, and it's almost like you feel tingly in a way where you know something is off, and from that point forward, this anxiety kicks in where you just worry and worry... this cyclical, terrible nature.

Guilt is a serious appetite killer.

I think it's so easy for us to kind of just be robots and do day in and day out and not check in with ourselves, and not just kinda make sure we're okay.

Stress eating is huge - I did a lot during lockdown, and I think that's half the battle. We give ourselves such a hard time, our internal voice is so aggressive and we need to start being kinder to ourselves.

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

Alcohol is a class of drugs that we call 'the sedatives.' And what you're doing is just knocking your brain out. You're not putting it into natural sleep.

The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy.

If we live a sedentary life, you're going to be depressed and lack confidence. So get out there and get active.

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

Depression gets you nowhere but tangled in an overgrown garden that can choke the life out of you.

It's not only the event itself, but the way we explain it to ourselves that causes depression.