Quotes About Mental health

Living with mental illness is not a choice and can lead to debilitating circumstances.

Once you can accept that you have a mental illness, that is when you can work on it.

I want to work with faith-based leaders to address the negative attitudes that are still too often associated with mental illness, attitudes that hold people back from getting the help that they need.

Yes, I talk about eating disorders and you know, excessive dieting and excessive exercising can be a sign of a mental illness... but when we talk about eating disorders... the issue is not the food or the exercise, the issue is a lack of healthy conception of self. That is the issue.

Mental illness is a fact of life, like cancer or heart disease.

We need to be open about mental illness, and demand the mental health services we need.

I had my job, which I loved to do, which I was really good at. I was at the top of my career, and I had it all taken away because of a mental illness.

I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.

Being mentally strong doesn't mean you don't experience emotions. In fact, mental strength requires you to become acutely aware of your emotions so you can make the best choice about how to respond.

The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.

Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

I don't buy that there's nothing we can do to stop criminals and the mentally ill from killing if they want to.

Everyone agrees that there are individuals who are seriously mentally ill and should not have guns.

In this country, we've gotten away from institutionalizing and we've moved toward assimilating and drugging the mentally ill.

I don't drink and I don't party. And I take care of myself mentally, and that's huge.

I'm trying to do things that help keep me mentally healthy, and if that includes making music, then great. But I won't lie - there are days when I just watch a show and eat a packet of cookies.

If I'm dressed down, I'm sad. If I'm really done up, I feel happy and mentally well.

I work out first thing as mentally it makes me feel great and I like to start the day with it.

I was never really healthy mentally.

There is nothing compassionate about abandoning the mentally ill to the streets and making the rest of us live in their bedlam.

People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it hurts really bad. It can really mess with your head.

Everyone has some secret and some source of pain or sadness and I just said mine first and then everybody went after me. I get it every day in my Instagram direct messages, people thanking me for talking about depression and telling me how it helped them.

It's like, you can't have any fun, and if you do have fun, if you do your own thing, you're considered crazy and should be in a mental institution. Now, that's what I find creepy. I'm eccentric. I am not messed up.

If you give a bipolar man a mic, I don't know what you expect.