Quotes About Mental health

In fact, about 60 percent of gun deaths in the United States are suicides, not homicides or rare accidents.

When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad.

Beck's three principles of cognitive therapy were: All our emotions are generated by our "cognitions," or thoughts. How we feel at any given moment is due to what we are thinking about. Depression is the constant thinking of negative thoughts. The majority of negative thoughts that cause us emotional turmoil are plain wrong or at least distortions of the truth, but we accept them without question.

He notes that it remains the cancer of the mental health world: We are close to finding a cure, but not close enough for those who do not respond quickly to drugs or therapy.

Accelerated Rehabilitation had a scientific sound, as if Pierre would rehabilitate faster and faster in an elliptical path until evaporating in a blue flash of pure mental health.

There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon.

One of his students was an intense young man who was interested in writing fiction. My father lent him some books and talked to him for hours about the art of the novel. The boy went on to write a novel himself, a colorful fantasy about New Orleans, but no one wanted to publish it. He later killed himself. His name was John Kennedy Toole

Try not to worry... take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

Let me tell you something. A man ain't a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he can't chop down because they're inside.

The box had done what Sweet Home had not, what working like an ass and living like a dog had not: drove him crazy so he would not lose his mind.

his mild cynicism morphed into depression.

It's amazing how much time there is when you're unhappy.

For the first time in her life Mariah knew the benefit, the balm of not keeping blistering memories padlocked in her mind.

I can't afford to spend days in self loathing as everyone expects fat women to do. Self loathing eats your life.

I stopped and asked him if he was all right, and he said he was tired of remembering everything he wanted to forget and forgetting everything he wanted to remember.

In the case of Ellen West], whatever chance the woman might have had to grow and to express herself will now have vanished. For her obsession with her body is, fundamentally, an expression of violence towards her soul.

Broken bones take a long time to heal. Why shouldn't brains?

They're laughing because they're mad, too mad to be able to tell what's funny any more. The rewards for being sane may not be very many but knowing what's funny is one of them.

The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.

Sir if I was your daughter I would wait until this train started again and throw myself in front of it!

You've either bat-shit insane or you've watched too many movies. This isn't Star Wars , Mandel. I'm not Luke Skywalker. My dad's not Darth Vader. And you sure as hell aren't my Obi-Wan.

I'm sorry about what you've had to live through," Dr. Walton said quietly. "But we're here to help you overcome your past. We're here to help you live." (260)

Self-sabotage is the common denominator in all forms of anxiety and depression, whether rooted in the body, soul or spirit.

You cannot understand how intense depression and anxiety can be unless you have been there, and not every chemical imbalance signifies a demon. Sometimes we need to give people permission to take medication if they need it—which, by the way, is a huge no-no in many Christian circles.