Quotes About Mental health

depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself...

It has been said that depression is a failure to imagine a plausible desirable future for oneself.

Actually, therapy isn't just about feeling better - it's about getting better, which usually involves feeling worse for a while.

We formed the fellowship of the ring when we should've all just gone on medication

People who're nuts never doubt their own sanity. (The Killer's Cousin)

Each morning he begs his parents not to read the newspaper, knowing how their faces go half-blank and mad

Women are told for so long that our feelings—our internal sensations of pain, pleasure, joy, sadness, or anger—are too much, or wrong, or bad. So eventually we can't stop thinking and thinking about these problems, trying to think them out, but we stop feeling our feelings about them.

If we take the high end of the figures, it means that of ten young American women in college, two will be anorexic and six will be bulimic; only two will be well. The norm, then, for young, middle-class American women, is to be a sufferer from some form of the eating disease.

In a survey of 494 middle-class schoolgirls in San Francisco, more than half described themselves as overweight, while only 15 percent were so by medical standards. Thirtyone percent of nine-year-olds thought they were too fat, and 81 percent of the ten-year-olds were dieters.

Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.

if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.

Não se envergonhe de ter medo.Ter medo é sinal de senso comum.As únicas pessoas que não têm medo são os doidos varridos.

Learning to skip has brought control into her life. Whenever she feels at all sad she switches into this wholly happy gait, sliding, hopping, and sliding again; when doing this, it seems as though her head separates from her body, making her feel dizzy and emptied out of bad thoughts. Does anyone else in the world know this trick, she wonders. Probably not, though her mother sometimes waves at her from the window, waves and smiles.

in 1972, the revelation that a vice-presidential candidate—George McGovern's running mate, Thomas Eagleton—had undergone psychotherapy was reason enough to have him removed from the ticket. The notion of working through a trauma therapeutically was still unfamiliar

I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

I call people sometimes hoping not only that they'll verify the fact that I'm alive but that they'll also, however indirectly, convince me that being alive is an appropriate state for me to be in. Because sometimes I don't think it's such a bright idea. Is it worth the trouble it takes trying to live life so that someday you get something worthwhile out of it, instead of it almost always taking worthwhile things out of you?

You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

they worry about my sanity i join with them on that

Sometimes I have to remind myself to breathe. You would think it would be an innate human instinct but no, i inhale and forget to exhale and so I find my body rigid, all tensed up, heart pounding , chest tight with an anxious head wondering what's wrong.

Our thoughts are ever-changing, because we put them there. Once you grasp the difference between suicidal thoughts and your feelings, you will start to understand your emotions. You can separate your suicidal thoughts from your feelings.

She's had no one to share these thoughts with, no one but herself, and she's driving herself crazy.

They should prescribe you for depression instead of pills