Quotes About Mental health

It's a daily struggle for me to stay alive. I don't mean to be melodramatic, hyperbolic, or go into my broadcast mode. But even that, my career is bipolar.

I deal with body dysmorphia a lot, so it's always a process to see and hear myself on camera. I have to be in the right mental mode to not be hyper-critical of myself.

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

Moms or soon-to-be-moms put a lot of pressure on themselves.

If I don't do some sort of exercise in a day, I do get in a terrible mood. That's always been true.

We know that chronic loneliness has consequences. It certainly depresses our mood. And in terms of our health, people who struggle with loneliness also have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, dementia, depression, and anxiety. Loneliness is also associated with a shorter lifespan.

If I don't do anything for two or three days in a row, I feel really grumpy. My mood changes.

I have never gone for a diagnosis and I don't consider myself to be bipolar, but I have extreme moods. I get heightened. I get very overexcited. But I do get very low, too... I don't know whether it's inherited or learned.

I think more people should be open to talking about mental health issues. Instead of holding in so much.

I always say: a run in the morning is like eating a fruit a day - it chases he doctor away. It is good for your mind.

There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly, he made me brave.

I was diagnosed with ADD - see also: raised on sugary cereals and cartoons - and manic depression. So I was prescribed Ritalin for the ADD, and for the manic imbalances I was prescribed mostly benzodiazepines, which I loved, and antidepressants.

Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.

I think that's why a lot of people are very lonely and get ill when they're older, because I think loneliness and having no motivation, nothing to work towards... I think it kills you.

The term 'deinstitutionalization' conceals some simple truths, namely, that old, unwanted persons, formerly housed in state hospitals, are now housed in nursing homes; that young, unwanted persons, formerly also housed in state hospitals, are now housed in prisons or parapsychiatric facilities; and that both groups of inmates are systematically drugged with psychiatric medications.

The ethics of psychiatric therapy is the very negation of the ethics of political liberty. The former embraces absolute power, provided it is used to protect and promote the patient's mental health. The latter rejects absolute power, regardless of its aim or use.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

The fact that physicians commit suicide more frequently than do lay persons ought to unmask their claims about suicide prevention as self-serving propaganda.

Incarceration in a mental hospital is unlawful deprivation of liberty, that mental illnesses are fictitious diseases, and that coercive psychiatry is social control, not medical care.

The person who kills himself sees suicide as a solution. If the observer views it as a problem, he precludes understanding the suicide just as surely as he would preclude understanding a Japanese speaker if he assumed that he is hearing garbled English.

Psikiyatri –burada bu terimi psikanalizi, psikolojiyi ve bütün ak?l saÄŸl??? mesleklerini içine alacak ÅŸekilde kullan?yorum– modern toplumlar?n en önemli kurumlar?ndan biridir ve "ak?l hastal???n?n diÄŸer hastal?klar gibi bir hastal?k olduÄŸu" ÅŸeklindeki postulat-önermeye s?k?ca baÄŸl?d?r. Bu önerme bir yaland?r.

Mutsuzluk, çaresizlik, hayal k?r?kl??? ve intihar insanl?k halinin ayr?lmaz parças?d?r. Bunlar?n sebebi ne iblisleri olmak ne de ak?l hastas? olmakt?r. Herkesin bildiÄŸi bu gerçeÄŸi iddia etmek ÅŸöyle dursun, ona inanma cesaretine bile herkes sahip deÄŸildir.

Did you really want to die? No one commits suicide because they want to die. Then why do they do it? Because they want to stop the pain.

This is one of the pitfalls of being nice: You end up overexerting yourself. That's why one of the most important things to learn after you master good behavior is how to say no gracefully. It's ultimately better for everyone, because you don't burn out and wind up in a mental institution, making you no good to anyone at all.