Quotes About Mental health

I don't like to look out of the windows even--there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper as I did?

If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do? . . . So I take phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to "work" until I am well again. Personally, I disagree with their ideas . . .

The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.

I've got out at last," said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!

Às vezes eu acho que se ao menos eu estivesse bem o suficiente para escrever um pouco, aliviaria a pressão das ideias e eu poderia descansar. - O papel de parede amarelo

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time. Of course I don't when John is here, or anybody else, but when I am alone.

But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows that there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.

Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, - to dress and entertain, and order things

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.

John doesn't know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him. It is getting to be a great effort for me to think straight. Just this nervous weakness I suppose.

My own mental health issues had come and gone the same way, diagnosed nearly a hundred years ago as simple "hysteria," which only meant that I was a woman and really, who gave a shit what was actually wrong with me? Or

There's a crazy lady living in your head. I hope you'll be comforted to hear that you're not alone.

Everything you say to me Takes me one step closer to the edge And I'm about to break I need a little room to breathe 'Cause I'm one step closer to the edge And I'm about to break

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

People like you are the reason People like me need medication.

modern stress — toxic evil toxic stress — modern evil

Diet is a four-letter word.

Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much?

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

That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.

Don't chain your worries to your body. The burden soon becomes heavy and your health will give too much of itself picking up the extra load.

Writing helps keep me sane — or at least a pen's length from insane.

If you are physically sick, you can elicit the interest of a battery of physicians; but if you are mentally sick, you are lucky if the janitor comes around.

Dr. Zachary T. Bercovitz told me: "Some people are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds." Asked to specify these diseased thoughts, he replied, "Oh, the usual — fear, guilt, worry, frustration, tension, resentment, gloominess, despondency. In fact, if fear and resentment were eliminated from people's minds I believe our hospital population would be reduced by maybe fifty per cent. Certainly by a lot anyway."