Quotes About Mental health

SUICIDE. Like a light going on. In the darkness. That there is an out helps you stay in.

naturally, we are all caught in downmoods, it's a matter of chemical imbalance and an existence which, at times, seems to forbid any real chance at happiness.

If you went to a shrink, he just read to you from the book but when you looked at him, you knew he didn't know what you were talking about. You were just talking to a contented person. When what you really needed when you were going crazy was another crazy who read exactly what you were saying, but not from the book, from the street.

Estoy muy tranquilo y escucho, pero por debajo hay un hervor inmenso de locura que hay que cuidar en último término o acabaré pegándome un tiro, algún día.

These words I write keep me from total madness.

Some authors say they write to keep from going insane. I say,why limit yourself?

As to me, so long as I have the strength, I shall battle against Melancholy. I am not philosopher enough to reason it away, so I'll be content with singing it off.

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the Helmet of Salvation

When self-doubt awakens, it feeds on itself. . . .

I look hot and, most of all, skinny. I love the day after throwing up. I felt like a feather.

The times when you feel like laughing the least are usually the times you need to laugh the most.

But when you're depressed, you think baloney is filet mignon. You score it, marinate it, and slap it on the grill. But when you finally bite into it, reality sets in (or is it heartburn?) and you realize it ain't steak---it's baloney.

If you have a million things to do, adding item number 1,000,001 is not such a big deal. When, on the other hand, you have nothing to do, getting out of bed and washing yourself before 2:00 P.M. feels like too much work to even contemplate.

Now, the separation between depression and suicide is more crevasse than chasm.

Sleep is a luxury to anxious minds.

They program you to have no emotion – like if somebody sitting next to you gets killed you just have to carry on doing your job and shut up,' Steve Annabell, a British veteran of the Falkan War … 'When you leave the service, when you come back from a situation like that, there's no button they can press to switch your emotions back on. So you walk around like a zombie. They don't deprogram you. If you become a problem they just sweep you under the carpet.

A World War II study determined that after sixty days of continuous combat, 98 percent of all surviving soldiers will have become psychiatric casualties. They found that a common trait among the 2 percent who were able to endure sustained combat was a predisposition toward "aggressive psychopathic personalities."3

I do not Google myself, I do not read comments, and I barely look myself in the eye when I look in the mirror.

I was called 'fat' 200 times on shoots and had serious trouble fitting in the clothes at fashion shows. All these things break you down to a point where you look in the mirror and don't like what you see.

Sometimes, I can be crying my eyes out, wanting to die, and then I'll walk by a mirror and see myself and just bust out laughing.

I was miserable at uni. There were months at a time when I wouldn't leave the house unless it was to buy food. I lost a lot of friendships. I later lost jobs because of my mental health.

I beat myself a little bit too much sometimes. When you beat yourself a little bit too much, there's little things that make you miserable.

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

There are lots of things, including changing the kind of inner dialog, that can mitigate anxiety. And yes, there are people who have the glass half full and glass half empty, and I'm afraid the glass is going to break and I'll cut myself on the shards.