Quotes About Mental health

I try to stay positive and keep my head up right, but I really do have a lot of anxiety.

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

I'm trying to be more organized, put together, and be more kind to myself. I'm really hard on myself and really just self-critical and always striving for this perfection which doesn't exist.

When people say there is a 'reason' for the depression, they insult the person who suffers, making it seem that those in agony are somehow at fault for not 'cheering up.' The fact is that those who suffer - and those who love them - are no more at fault for depression than a cancer patient is for a tumor.

I tune it all out because if I let other people's stress get to me, then I stress myself out more than I need to.

For those suffering from depression, I know how dark and endless that tunnel can feel. But if happiness seems impossible to find, please hold on to the possibility of hope, faint though it may be.

My go-to protective thing is isolation. It's turn off the phone, don't speak to anyone, lie in bed all day, and then maybe go out at night and do the same thing over again.

They say depression is just anger turned inward. Sometimes I turn it outwards, sometimes I turn it inward, but I know it's about self-worth.

Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.

The biggest thing I've learned is just to not doubt myself as much as I do. Having self-doubt is definitely necessary, but it's about not letting it get in the way. When it turns into fear, you run into problems.

If you can't control your tweeting habits, then stop tweeting. Go seek therapy.

I get stuff every single day whether that be comments on my Instagram photos, or tweets about a tweet that I put out. Just tweets that they make in general to just pick on me, make me feel bad about myself, belittle me or anything. It's not good.

I started to sing a lot more during my twenties when I was struggling with depression.

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

I learned, by the time I was twenty, I'm not gonna die from a panic attack; you feel like you're going to.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

I only work once or twice a year for about a month, so I have a lot of free time. But I'm good at being alone, which helps.

People who fail to use their emotional intelligence skills are more likely to turn to other, less effective means of managing their mood. They are twice as likely to experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide.

I had been imprisoned three times and had twice been incarcerated in a madhouse.

I meditate, which I really like. Just 20 minutes twice a day and that really helps.

I see a therapist once, twice a week sometimes.

Stress is actually the number one thing that blocks people from their happiness and well-being and from getting what they want.

A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far it soon becomes poisonous.

Please, people, do not f- with depression. It's merciless. All it wants is to get you in a room alone and kill you. Take care of yourself.