Quotes About Mental health

aven, I have given up smoking again!... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

Afflictive emotions — our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear — can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

A day in heaven,' Adam whispered. What would that be like? To wake up one morning and be normal ? To not bite down and parcel out each second of each day. To not wrestle and negotiate with your obsessions. To not have thoughts that ran you into the ground. To have a quit mind. A quiet mind. Quiet.

The flight from shame into grandiosity lies at the heart of male covert depression.

They send you to places where bombs explode like jack-in-the-boxes, blowing your friends to pieces before your eyes. Then they punish you when you can't stop thinking about it.

The first glass is a sedative, the second a psychologist, the third glass an excuse, and the fourth a lobotomy.

The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies.

Skipping exercises your happiness muscles.

When most people see an adult skipping they assume it must be on the way either to or from the asylum.

My sister's hard to understand when she has a breakdown," Rachael agreed. "She doesn't really mumble, but it's more like verbal kung fu. She has about six conversations at once and mixes them all up liked tossed salad.

I never define depression, clinical or otherwise. It's the basis of most life. It seems to be the modern world: we all are depressed.

Hours spent daily watching your television news will do more to add to your depression than to alleviate your feelings of helplessness.

Check on your strong friends.

You can call the depression hotline.

The building of a good society is not primarily a social, but a psychic task.