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Quotes About Mental health

"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces. Never will the world know how much it owes to them, nor what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on us. We enjoy fine music, beautiful pictures, a thousand exquisite things, but we do not know what they cost those who wrought them in sleeplessness, tears, spasmodic laughter, rashes, asthma, epilepsy, a terror of death which is worse than any of these.
~ Marcel Proust
It's usually very gradual... It's latent. It waits. It lays in wait for the time when you think, "It's fine now, I'm okay." And then... then the next thing you know, it's not okay. Things are not going so well.
~ Robin Williams, 2006
To some if you owned your own mind you were indeed sickout when you possessed and Antagonist mind you were healthy. A mind which sought to interpret the world by using a single loa. Somewhat like filling a milk bottle with an ocean.
~ Ishmael Reed
A stable and nurturing childhood is essential for the healthy psycho-emotional and spiritual development of a human being. While we may understand what is supposed to happen to us physically, we must begin to better understand what happens to children mentally, emotionally and spiritually as a result of the families into which they are born.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
And when we make choices informed by a depressive state of mind, they're more than likely to keep us stuck in our unhappiness.
~ J. Mark G. Williams
If we have been depressed before, a low mood can become easier and easier to trigger over time, because each time it returns, the thoughts, fe elings , body sensations, and behaviors that accompany it form stronger and stronger connections to each other. Eventually, any one element can trigger depression by itself.
~ J. Mark G. Williams
But something was broken in her. She wasn't suicidal, but in the end isn't that what happened? She risked her life, her health, her dreams every time she took those pills, washed them down with vodka.
~ J.D. Robb
he seems to be on the brink of one of his bad spells again, one of the fits of lugubrious self-pity that turn into black gloom. He likes to think that they comes from elsewhere, episodes of bad weather that cross the sky and pass on. He prefers not to think they come from inside him and are his, part of him.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Maybe he had to stop thinking TVs were sending him messages. Because this was a dumb fucking idea.
~ J.R. Ward
Suicide had never been an option; you took your own life, you couldn't get into the Fade
~ J.R. Ward
I tried to kill myself last night, he said to her in his head. And I have no idea why.
~ J.R. Ward
The mind does not regulate its own condition. Mental depression, for example, is a state caused by the body ... William James described this relationship when he said we become sad because we shed tears: we do not shed tears because we are sad.
~ Jack Henry Abbott
How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract.
~ Jack Kerouac
The mad have unkind hearts.
~ Jack Kerouac
I don't check Twitter as much or tweet as often because, honestly, sometimes social media is draining and brings out all of the negative things going on.
~ Doja Cat
I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that.
~ Joel Kinnaman
I think it's part of your mental health to let go of things. I think if you would have it all right there, it would be a little overwhelming. I don't know how you'd have a relationship. When you have a relationship, don't two people collude to kind of forget certain things?
~ Dylan Walsh
I got anxiety in April of 2014. I was hospitalized for two weeks, and they didn't know what was wrong with me, and at the end, they gave me a low dosage of Xanax. Before the whole anti-Xanax message in what I do, I was actually pro-Xanax culture.
~ Lil Xan
I don't think I suffered with depression, I don't think I'm a depressed type of person - I just think I suffered a depression to do with snooker, and I just couldn't handle it. I could go out and play, but take me out of there and I couldn't do life. It was a nightmare, my life just felt like a bit of a nightmare.
~ Ronnie O'Sullivan
I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2.
~ Ned Beatty
I'm not one of those actors who gets so taken by a role that I can't live my life. I'm the type of actor who goes to work, transforms into a character, takes you on a journey, and then comes back home to be Billy. When I'm in it, I'm in it, but I know how to get out of it. When you can't shut it off, you're a crazy person. I'm not crazy.
~ Billy Porter
Sleep is probably the most important biological function. If you don't get enough sleep, you can get psychiatric illnesses and all types of different illnesses.
~ Carl Hart
If an autoimmune disease can create symptoms that look exactly like schizophrenia, that raises the question, what is schizophrenia? And are there forms of schizophrenia that are caused by other types of autoimmune disease?
~ Susannah Cahalan