Quotes About Mental health

Folks who only battle the symptoms of stress are losing the battle because the symptoms are sure to return if the causes aren't dealt with.

By thinking mostly about everything that has gone wrong, is going wrong, and can possibly go wrong, the thinker is bound to end up in a lousy mental and emotional state.

Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

Knowing was the worst part. Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person—it only adds the burden of panic.

A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.

Finding out what you already know. Repeatingly. That's not sane, is it? And while he might have said that this was how he was, for me it continued to be frightening, panic-making, to hear the low, pleading sounds I'd started making, whenever he was sharp with me. This wasn't how I spoke. (Except it was.) This wasn't me, this crawling, cautious creature. (Except it was.)... none of this was personal.

If you scream, you're marked "insane." But silence is a place in which to scream!

The wordlessness of depression is a galling experience. You can't phone your friends, writing an e-mail is beyond you, you can't put pen to paper. The disease is a crash course in meaninglessness, lack of structure, the collapse of form.

An old cardboard box: you think it but you don't say it. Leftovers, that are swept up and glued together. I am your alipte , I say, I am your personal trainer and masseuse. I oil you. But there's no ointment against the bad thoughts and phantasms.

Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.

nearly mad before you cleaned

Sometimes we all have negative thoughts every now and then, but we can choose not to dwell in them and not to let them control us.

Your triggers are your responsibility. It isn't the worlds obligation to tiptoe around you.

I was never insane. I just needed to live my life in the best way possible.

I showed my facebook page to my psychiatrist and she wants to talk to all of y'all.

Psychiatry today is less a psychotherapeutic enterprise than a pharmacological crapshoot

He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.

All drunks, particularly those who grew up in alcoholic homes, have that same sense of angst and trepidation, one that has no explainable origins. The fear is not necessarily self-centered, either. It's like watching someone point a revolver at his temple while he cocks and dry-fires the mechanism, over and over again, until the cylinder rotates a loaded chamber into firing position.

You've got a lot of anger in you, son," he said. "Don't let it turn on you. It'll flat tear you up.

What might be considered irrational, abnormal, aberrant, ludicrous, illogical, bizarre, schizoid, or schizophrenic to earth people (which is what AAs call nonalcoholics) is usually considered fairly normal by AA members.

Don't be afraid." "I hear voices," Iggy said. "Be very afraid.

once told me this thing about brain chemistry, the nub of it being that when you're feeling good, you can't ever imagine feeling bad again. And when you're feeling bad, it's impossible to imagine a time when you won't be circling the drain.

But being mentally ill wasn't like drowning, even if it sometimes felt like it. Because the thing about drowning is that someone else can save you, whether you want them to or not. And the thing about struggling with mental illness is that you have to be part of saving yourself.

Look at PTSD as weight," she says. "If you're carrying, say, five pounds, you can fix that. If you're carrying five hundred pounds, you'll die.