Quotes About Mental health

If the first thing you do when you wake up is reach for your phone, the signal you are sending your brain is that the needs of others –the messages on your phone –are more important than your own needs.

He sounded so lonely; he always had. It was so easy for him to fall into himself; she'd always had to work so hard to get him to stay in the world. He hid in his head, and it wasn't good for him, he was always so much happier when she would coax him out of there.

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Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.

I just feel not many people hear that you should feel good inside and feel happy within your soul, instead of needing to look a certain way, so I always try and talk to people about that.

We all are scared. First of all, as a culture, we're constantly told that if you start to express yourself or express your needs, you're needy. You're too emotional. And they put all these negative connotations on it. That has started since we were kids, especially for men.

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.

Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.

I hope that others can turn their negative thoughts into positive thoughts and improve their own lives.

After my debut didn't go very well with Holt, I needed to be in a healthier head space. I was happy to emerge from there. You will always have those negative thoughts as a writer, but you can't let them take over. If you let them take over, those are the real page killers.

The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.

I get nervous about everything. I think there's something wrong if you don't get nervous.

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

I worked myself into a frenzy. By 1996, I had a nervous breakdown just from working. I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, just getting anxiety attacks and all of that stuff because I was doing too much, too young, all the time.

If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.

You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'

Bill Maher thinks 95 percent of the world has a neurological disorder.

I'm extremely neurotic; it's the way my brain is built.

We're all controlled neurotics.

I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!