Quotes About Mental health

That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.

Trolling and bullying has become a norm on social media and people are not aware of the ways to deal with it. So, it's important to create awareness and let people know that they are not alone.

I can't be normal. I'm probably bipolar.

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

Some people don't like showing any deviation from normality, but I like talking about things like that, so talking about my mental health wasn't a big deal.

It's a real bloke thing, not talking to people because it's not manly to get help.

You can't compartmentalise everything but the more you do that the easier it is. Keeping a notebook is a good way of dealing with it. You can rest from any thoughts if you put them down on paper.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.

Mental health is not a novelty; it's part of who we are and we need to treat it as if it were a broken arm or any other kind of medical consideration.

Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.

Anti-depressants helped me get up in the morning and stopped me from being sad, but what they also do is stop you from being happy. So I was just in this numb state. I stopped laughing at jokes, and that's just not me.

I was fully burnt out - and in some ways I think that was good, because I was just fully numb.

I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.

It is one of the most ignorant things you can do to a person, to say they're nuts or they're crazy. It diminishes the layers of who they are as a person.

I'm not always nuts, you can't be nuts 100 per cent of the time, I don't even think I'm nuts.

To me, if I retire tomorrow, what the hell am I gonna do? Sit around the house and do nothing? I would drive everybody crazy, including myself. I would go nuts - literally, I would go insane.

Everyone's go to hate comments are 'Miss Piggy,' 'You're obese,' 'Keep shoving food in your mouth.' As these continued to grow, so did my weight.

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

I have observed and taken part in some mental health first aid training, and I have met many mental health first aiders, and I am convinced that even a few hours' training can make a real difference.

I was really obsessed with dieting.

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) runs in my family, as do other mental health problems.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop.