Quotes About Mental health

People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it's like, 'Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!' And I know because I'm guilty of it, too.

Even if people threw tomatoes at me and booed me off stage, at least you can wash out tomatoes, unlike nine hours of abuse from the general public which can affect your mental health.

Girls are always saying things like, "I'm so unhappy that I'm going to overdose on aspirin," but they'd be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.

Former pleasures meant nothing to me anymore. Life was a series of tasks to be endured, and even the simplest ones were painfully arduous. It took everything I could muster to cook a meal, wash the dishes, or do the laundry. My income was virtually nonexistent. My occupation was therapy.

mental illness, depression, was indeed an illness with a physiological basis. It wasn't a sign of failure. I wasn't a failure.

Sometimes I feel like I am on top of the world. Other times it feels like the world is on top of me.

Sanity is very rare: every man almost, and every woman, has a dash of madness.

Ramana Maharshi's advice on depression) This depression must be traced to its origin. The origin is the wrong identification of the body with the Self. The disease is not of the Self. It is of the body. But the body does not come and tell you that it is possessed by the disease. It is you who say so. Why? Because you have wrongly identified yourself with the body. The body itself is a thought. Be as you really are. There is no reason to be depressed. (p. 360)

Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!"

Please say that my line is to make to smile the lunatic who has shown no sign of mirth for many months.

In the clinic it is obvious that what patients believe about human nature influences their lives and problems.

Paradoxically, it now is much easier to treat many mental disorders than it is to understand them.

Therapists have long known that many depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his or her energies in another direction.

I told her I had nothing against yoga or meditation. But I did think it's always best to try to treat the disease first. Her symptoms were stress and anxiety. Her disease was the money she owed. "Why

There is nothing like the cure of fresh air for cases of bladder infection, paranoia, and Cartesian thinking.

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.

I was having anxiety attacks, calling ambulances out and saying I was having a heart attack, as there was something weird going on with my body and mind.

One of the things I have been getting into is meditation. Sometimes it is just 5-10 minutes per day, lying on my bed and listening to a meditation app on my phone to try to calm my mind.

I tried the Calm app, but that I don't rec - well, maybe I got a bad story or something - but it didn't work for me.

I have something called exercise bulimia, which is where you rid of your calories by over-exercising.

I have had PTSD since I was in a car accident when I was 16.

Returning to running has been a really cathartic experience.

I had a heart issue, and a lot of it was caused by stress and anxiety. I know that my father had really high anxiety too.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.