Quotes About Mental health

At times he agreed with Anton: they were united by their silence. If they began articulating their thoughts, they'd feed one another's insanity and everything would fall apart.

Insanity doesn't run in my family. It gallops.

If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Indecision leads to inaction, which leads to low energy, depression, despair.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer

Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.

He made plans to keep himself sane, built castles of hope in the dark.

That's what they always ended up saying: "But I'm just sad." Feeling sad means having too much time on your hands, usually. Really. I'm not a licensed therapist but usually it means too much time.

The aim of therapy is to convert neurotic suffering into ordinary human misery.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

I believe that the purpose of God's guidance is to show us how to release our minds from fear so we may know peace and be truly kind and sensitive to others, which we cannot do when we are fear-dominated. Both

the greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person.

After a year of therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone."

When she told her doctor that she always wanted to keep her weight exactly the same as her IQ, he gave her a lecture on anorexia.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?

Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.

Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality, but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.

The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing other patients.

Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.