Quotes About Mental health

[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

42 A few months after Nash got out, Baumecker called the Institute for Advanced Study and asked to speak to Oppenheimer about whether Nash was now sane. Oppenheimer replied, "That's something no one on earth can tell you, doctor.

because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

What I mean by depression isn't just the blues, it's not just like a hangover from the weekend,or the girl didn't show up or something like that" said Leonard describing the paralyzing darkness and anxiety he experienced. "It's kind of a mental violence that stops you functioning from one moment from the next" Leonard took the spending "a lot of time alone. Dying." He said "letting myself slowly die

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

Kids don't have to stop the thoughts. They simply need to change their relationship to their thoughts. The more your child can learn to trust themselves, and not their anxiety, the more they will be able to put the worry thoughts aside.

I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

if you're interested in learning more about his schema model, read Reinventing Your Life).

the more turbulent the emotions expressed on paper, the greater the improvement in their immune function.

Automatic thoughts are the slippery initial defining thoughts of a schema, the ones that prime the flood of feelings and lead to a schema attack.

schema therapy, which focuses on repairing maladaptive emotional habits.

whenever something triggers them our feelings flare and our perceptions become distorted.

When a schema trigger disturbs your equilibrium, stirring strong feelings and reactions, it can be quite helpful first to calm your mind down and neutralize your feelings by, for instance, meditating on your breathing for a bit.

Ono što oni nisu shvatili jeste da se bolesti duše ne lije?e na isti na?in kao bolesti tijela.

Someone from a dysfunctional family or someone with no education is less likely to be able to control the anger and frustrations that arise in everyday life.

We all feel inadequate very often. It's only when it gets chronic that it is disturbing to one's emotions and can get out of hand and make you pretty damn miserable.

I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances - be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically - there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing.

I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.

Some of my fans have said that because I've been able to speak about my issues, that they're not afraid to speak about theirs, which is an amazing feeling.

Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one.

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.