Quotes About Mental health

It's okay', you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

It's okay to be crazy, but don't be insane.

So I just sat in bed for six months - I literally didn't leave the house - and it was the first time that I'd actually experienced being depressed. I'd be sad on and off but I'd never experienced actual depression. Like, crying for no reason. It was really horrible.

It is so important for young people to see characters with different mental health challenges on-screen.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

I wrote a show - just as a joke, actually - and called it 'Bipolar, Bath, & Beyond,' just to bring some humor to it. I wasn't saying to myself that I'll 'come out' with it - I didn't think there was anything to 'come out' with - I was just writing another one-woman show about my life.

Sometimes, how you ingest this idea of masculinity as projected onto you by the world could be the difference of life and death.

We need employers to have an open mind about people with mental illness, and be willing to employ people, with the right support.

We should be open to a discussion on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill. I don't know how that manifests itself, but I'm looking to get elected president of the United States. I just want to let people know I have an open mind about how we might - how government might - interject itself in a lot of the problems we have.

There are many things to like about 'Mr. Robot,' the most ephemeral and yet memorable of them being the opening credits.

Mental illness doesn't need to be hidden or glorified. It should be normalized to where people feel comfortable sharing with their families and friends and know they're not alone. By opening up about my struggle, I'm hoping I can help someone who feels like they don't know what to do or when they can't accept their situation.

An eating disorder is serious and it's a disease, and I don't think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they're openly telling you that they do.

While the circumstances of any one situation are unique, it is clear that many families could have been helped if they had found it easier to talk openly about mental health challenges in the home.

Whenever I get that sad, depressed feeling, I go out and kill a policeman.

What I mean is, if you're absolutely off your rocker, but don't find it convenient to be scooped into the luny-bin, you simply explain that, when you said you were a teapot, it was just your Artistic Temperament, and they apologize and go away. So I stood by to hear just how the A.T. had affected Clarence, the Cat's Friend, ready for anything.

You don't have to pay me to tell you this but this a dream born of depression. That's all it is. So what do I do? No idea. Stay awake. Good idea.

I could worry about his health but somehow not about my own. We throw ourselves away a little each day. Dr.

I'm beginning to understand that when we want to kill ourselves, it is not because we are lonely, but because we are trying to break up with the world before the world breaks up with us.

One began by finding mental illness mystifying, and ended by being still more mystified by health.

Suicides were rare now. The war had cheered everybody up.

Lila Wingo would take the raw material of a daughter and shape her into a poet and a psychotic.

I'm not mentally ill," she insisted, fidgeting in her chair. "I'm just very neurotic and I'm always falling in love with assholes.

Hell, Lowenstein! She made a schizophrenic! My mother should have raised cobras, not children!

A psychiatrist oblivious to money is like a sumo wrestler oblivious to body fat.