Quotes About Mental health

From reading too much, and sleeping too little, his brain dried up on him and he lost his judgment.

I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.

I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day, within a week, within a month. I go through at least four major episodes a year. That's really the definition of bipolar rapid cycle. But I have ultra-rapid, so I have tiny little episodes all day long.

When I was at Everton, I went through a lot of up and down spells, lacking in confidence.

So my weight has always gone up and down quite a lot. I was never obese, but Ive always struggled with eating.

Feeling we have to be constantly updated about the lives of our friends and that everything we say has to be out there leads to frustration, anger and jealousy much more than it leads to anything else.

To have depression, it's such an uphill battle and I feel for everyone that has it because it's hard to have it.

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

Any doctor will tell you a great treatment for depression is exercise, physical exertion, that it really ups the dopamine in your brain, so that's what a show is. I play a show and that's a high for me; I can ride that.

I've said before, I've always had difficulty with anxiety and depression. I've been on medication for it since I was about 18 years old, varying degrees of medication. I've had big ups and downs with it and very bad periods.

I've accepted now that it's okay not to be okay. It is okay to be upset, and it is okay to need to talk to someone.

A big thing with the heart issue is you can't be up in here being stressed and having a lot of anxiety, so I had to do a lot of soul searching about how, 'Why do certain things make me upset?' and being more honest with myself. It's actually made my marriage awesome, it's made my friendships better.

I'm very jolly by nature but I get very upset when my skin is bad, I dread leaving the house.

There are more men than women in mental hospitals - which just goes to show who's driving who crazy.

The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.

Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set and you're working out, you're going to feel good.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick.

You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work.

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Work is always an antidote to depression.