Quotes About Mental health

When I decided to get sober, there were a lot of chemical imbalances that came along with that, physically as well as mentally.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

To me poverty, mental health, and addictions don't sound like criminal justice problems. They sound to me like a social justice problem.

People can be too harsh, especially with social media. It brings a person down.

Just because it may seem like I am so confident, so happy all the time, there are times when I feel low. There are times when I want to curl up in a ball and not expose myself on social media anymore and just close it down because of the trolls.

You know you don't want to see somebody in that kind of position to the point where they're actually putting out a cry for help on social media. That's not a good place to be in.

Social media can be so damaging.

I love social media, but it made me quite anxious.

Social media has been both damaging and beneficial in terms of how we view our bodies.

My background is in social work and psychotherapy.

Under a government committed to cutting public services to the bone, the police are often left to clean up all sorts of untidy situations that are really social work or housing, mental and physical health issues.

Most of us are never educated about feelings. Instead, we're expected to learn socially acceptable ways to deal with feelings by watching the people around us. But the truth is, many people don't role model healthy ways to deal with feelings.

Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle when you say that they can't get along socially, that they're not good with people.

I really see that socio-economic constraints and pressure contribute to our mental health in a big way. You come to realize that it's all mental health.

Soft Sounds' was about disassociating to preserve my mental health.

The impact of solitary confinement can have a devastating consequence to the psychology of the people who are affected.

How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.

Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.

It's a very neurotic time we live in, this postanalytical period where everybody goes to a shrink to solve their problems.

We will not solve the addiction problem in America if we don't address social connection.

Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery.

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.