Quotes About Mental health

Mi resi conto, allora, che l'unico vero collaudo della forza – del tono muscolare, per così dire – della sanità mentale è la capacità di sostenere l'urto di un interrogativo dietro l'altro senza che vi sia neanche l'ombra di una risposta.

Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.

We need to understand that victims of trauma are more prone to all forms of addiction because their baseline of stress is different.

It's been found that if you wake up every morning and practice saying three things you are grateful for—they have to be new each day—by doing this for twenty-one days, even people who were testing as the low-level pessimist on average were now testing as low-level optimist.

The point is that our body's core regulatory systems can be altered by traumatic experiences. A child exposed to unpredictable or extreme stress will become what we call dysregulated.

La diferencia entre el hombre al que le gusta soñar continuamente que es Napoleón y al hombre que se cree Napoléon es la diferencia que hay entre el soñador dichoso y el esquizofrénico desdichado.

I'm crazy, said Ender. But I think I'm OK.

Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.

I'm crazy,' said Ender. 'But I think I'm OK.

But when you're already going crazy from confinement, it doesn't matter how much you like somebody, how much you love them, how grateful you are for their kindness to you. They will make you nuts. Everything they do grates on you like a bad song that won't get out of your head.

Shy people might take their doses of companionship like an ill-tasting medicine, but they need it, and they suffer a thousand maladies, physical and mental, if they don't have it.

But a person who really believes she doesn't belong to any community at all invariably kills herself, either by killing her body or by giving up her identity and going mad.

A volte sono depresso e non apro bocca per giorni. In quei casi, non deve pensare che sia di cattivo umore. Basta lasciarmi stare e presto mi passa.

her. I never felt properly sorry for schizophrenics, she thought, unable to escape the voices in their heads and fighting for their sanity with a maelstrom of noise all around them, making it impossible to think. No

number of emotionally wounded and crippled people is so vast, and the number of qualified professionals so small in comparison

If psychosis was was just some synapses misfiring why wouldnt you simply get static?

And of course it shouldnt come as a surprise to find that people in rubber rooms have a worldview at odds with that of the people who put them there.

I'm not by myself. I'm schizophrenic.

If you get committed you get certified but if you commit yourself you dont. They figure that you must be reasonably sane of you wouldnt have show up. On your own. ... If you're sane enough to know that you're crazy then you're not as crazy as if you thought you were sane.

Deixe a raiva seguir seu curso ou ela pode consumir você.

You hear about the guy who took too much blotter acid and had a lifelong trip?" he asked me once. "The cops were outside his door, coming to bust him, so he ate his whole stash. Now he thinks he's a glass of orange juice. He's in the nuthatch, bug-eyed and shivering, terrified someone's coming to drink him.

Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

You gotta laugh because if you didn't you'd cry

There are only three major vote getting days in Absoroka County, and I can't remember the other two. Oh God, no. It's Pancake Day. I thought about shooting myself. I could see the headlines: Sheriff shoots self, unable to face pancakes.