Quotes About Mental health

I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.

There are plenty of studies that have shown that depression is associated with decreased immunity. So I want to harness all of the positive emotional energy I can in a patient to get better.

Definitely 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." Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

There are days where I've lost weight and I feel bigger or fatter or uglier and I want to just hibernate. I'll find every excuse not to exercise. I hate it.

You can either go to the gym because you want to lose weight, or you can go to the gym because you like how it makes you feel when you're running.

I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

Antidepressants. The thought of this girl actually being depressed made me want to grab the whole planet and throw it into the sun. Well, more than usual anyway.

I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.

The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to.

I come from a family and a heritage where you don't really go to therapy unless you're crazy. I want people to know that that's so not the case. It's enriching, and I've learned this new tool.

Of all the weapons we turn upon ourselves, guilt is the sharpest, Silverfox. It can carve one's own past into unrecognizable shapes, false memories leading to beliefs that sow all kinds of obsessions.

To be alone is to be ill, Warlord, not just spiritually, but physically as well.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

Är det att leva, att man är så ohyggligt ensam att man inte ens förmår att smitta ner de 'friska' med sin 'sjukdom'?

Lily, something is happening to me, to my mind. I feel weak and afraid. We are kin, you and Owen and I. You must not turn away from me.

Perhaps there was some truth in the implication Taropat had made. Merlan had taken Khaster's place in Tayven's mind. He was the weak and vulnerable one now, and Tayven felt he must help him as he couldn't have helped before.

Madness was only a handicap only if you couldn't control its irrationalities.

Trauma is not just one thing.

One thing I can suggest is that when you start to go to a dark place, for you to consciously redirect your thoughts. Mind over mind. Make yourself think of something completely different. An image of something joyful or silly, and focus on that.

Often illness is an expression of feelings repressed.

Had a note from Mr Cherry asking me when I can resume my paper round. I sent a note back to say that due to my mother's desertion I am still in a mental state. This is true. I wore odd socks yesterday without knowing it. One was red and one was green. I must pull myself together. I could end up in a lunatic asylum.

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst

I got sober, and I got happy again.