Quotes About Mental health

I need eight hours to get maybe 20 minutes of work done. I had one of those yesterday: seven hours of self-loathing.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.

I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good about myself. I decided to accept myself and know that I am good.

Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

Why do we work so hard to feel so terrible?

There's a mental health problem in the sense that people are so afraid of the stigma that they don't get help. But there's absolutely a gun control problem in the country.

I believe the biggest stigma right now, with mental health, is that a lot of men are not talking about it.

Depression is a leading cause of ill health and disability, and many do not have access to mental health services and face significant social stigma around their disease.

Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental illness isn't a them/us issue; we are all on the scale somewhere. So we must be very careful to resist ignorance and combat the stigma that leads to dangerous silence.

My mom Neerja and I started this movement called Mpower. The whole idea is to break the stigma attached to mental illnesses.

I am privileged to have people around me who understand mental illnesses and mental health. However, the stigma around it is huge.

In India, there is a huge stigma attached to one having a mental illness; this not only makes it worse for the sufferer but also for their caregivers.

Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.

There is enormous shame around depression of any kind and at any time. And there's enormous social stigma attached to it, which we need to go on fighting. But I think that the sense of depression during pregnancy and early motherhood has been particularly stigmatized, that people especially feel that should be the happiest time of your life.

When I was suffering with depression, people weren't talking about depression. It had a stigma.

There are people with much bigger profiles than mine who are talking about mental illness. I am going to try to use whatever platform I have, whatever voice I have to help eliminate the stigma.

The idea of a physical stigma is quite appealing. When I wrote the book of 'Bodies,' there was a lot of that in the book about how there are physical manifestations of psychological problems - I think it's described as 'Narrativizing The Body.'

Everyone's got issues. There's a stigma in football that you earn a certain amount of money, how dare you have issues.

We must make sure the stigma is removed around mental health and commanders must make it clear on a consistent basis that their door is open for everyone. Servicemembers need to know that command is there for them, to offer assistance however and wherever needed.

Not everybody needs medication, and there is a big stigma around it, people can't wait to come off it or they are scared it will change their personality.

I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

I carry a lot of my weight in my stomach. I just want to have... not even a number, but to have my body in a different shape.

When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.