Quotes About Mental health

Eighty percent of custodial suicides are achieved by hanging. Prison inmates are seven times more likely to kill themselves than the general population.

She would power through this unsettling freak-out by eating healthy meals, keeping herself fit, reading, sleeping and doing all of the self-care that was clearly lacking in her life.

Running wasn't pointless, of course. Sometimes you did it to try to outrun your thoughts, sometimes you did it to chase them and bring them down. Sometimes you did it so that you didn't think at all.

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

Not all people are ready to accept psychiatry as a normal branch of medicine. The general impression, as I believe, is that a man who needs a psychiatrist must be crazy.

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. 'Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.

Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.

He couldn't even find the will to yell at her now. A real man didn't yell at those who weren't exactly sane themselves, he told himself.

Man is the only animal who is prone to insanity.

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

I wonder if my shrink (sorry, psychiatrist) was a woman not a man I'd be in a better or worse state?

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

Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

There is considerable danger that a man will be crazy between dinner and supper; but it will not directly answer any good purposethat I know of, and it is just as easy to be sane.

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.

I always say I am a realist, and my mom says, "No, you just have anxiety."

My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

I'm sorry you don't get it, Mom. Sometimes I don't get why I do the things I do. I just know I wake up every morning and wish I was dead.

Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.