Quotes About Mental health

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

I began to talk about dreaming as a kind of nighttime psychosis, saying at one point "Dreaming permits each of us to become quietly and safely insane every night of our lives," which was really an elaboration of Freud's ideas about dreaming as a safety valve.

Dreams are free therapy, but you can only get appointments at night.

In the 1960s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.

I am much more than one emotion. An emotion is something that comes, stays for some while, and will have to go away. I don't have to die just because of one emotion. I know I can handle an emotion with the practice of mindful deep breathing. I have survived emotions before.

Oh, God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

There are more ghosts in an unwell body than in an entire haunted mansion.

mais do que um grão de verdade no erro contido na definição infantil de memória: memória é a coisa com a qual a gente esquece. Ser capaz de esquecer significa sanidade. Lembrar incessantemente significa

If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts

I think you can only make statements like 'She was pathological' if you are absolutely sure of your own sanity, which I consider a morally unacceptable position.

In my estimation—and I could be taken to task by the authorities for such comments, so please reflect upon this conversation with care—the numbers of shell-shocked men ran into the hundreds of thousands. And, arguably, there is no man"—he held Maisie's eyes with his own—"or woman, who returned from Flanders unscathed in the mind.

But crazy people never think they're crazy. You're sane just by the virtue of the question.

Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts. By pursuing this process, a man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body, and lays it open to the entrance of disease;

Just as a gardener weeds, waters, and cares for his or her plot, we must cultivate our minds—weeding out negative, mistaken, useless thoughts, while encouraging positive, true, fruitful thoughts.

Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as speedily as a bullet, and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely though less rapidly. The

perfectionism is sometimes the most dangerous set of thoughts you can let make their home in your head.

If you think, "Everything would be better off if I were dead," then think, "That's really cool. Now I can do anything I want and I can postpone this thought for a while, maybe even a few months." Because what does it matter now? The planet might not even be around in a few months. Who knows what could happen with all these solar flares.

Here's an exercise for those who typically wake up anxious and paranoid at three in the morning: instead of counting sheep to get back to sleep, count all the things you are grateful for. Even the negative parts of your life. Figure out why you should be grateful for them. Try to get up to one hundred.

we beat ourselves up in ways in which we would never beat up someone we loved.

The poor boy sounded as though he would have put his head in the gas oven. If he had had a gas oven.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

The great business of his life (he said) was to escape from himself; this disposition he considered as the disease of his mind, which nothing cured but company.

Always remember, child,' her first teacher had impressed on her, 'that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort.