Quotes About Mental health

The bargain was this: Admit the anxiety as an essential part of yourself and in exchange that anxiety will be converted into energy, unstable but manageable. Stop with the self-flagellating and become yourself, with scars and tics.

The hard work, you discover over the years, is in learning to discern between correct and incorrect anxiety, between the anxiety that's trying to warn you about a real danger and the anxiety that's nothing more than a lying, sadistic, unrepentant bully in your head. The hard work is in learning to step back and analyze the data dispassionately.

Anxiety compels a person to think, but it is the type of thinking that gives thinking a bad name: solipsistic, self-eviscerating, unremitting, vicious.

The hard work, you discover over the years, is in learning to discern between correct and incorrect anxiety, between the anxiety that's trying to warn you about a real danger and the anxiety that's nothing more than a lying, sadistic, unrepentant bully in your head.

Mindfulness helps especially for those of us for whom every setback, hurt or dissapointment creates endless cascades of rumination

People with well-developed emotional skills are also more likely to be content and effective in their lives, mastering the habits of mind that foster their own productivity; people who cannot marshal some control over their emotional life fight inner battles that sabotage their ability for focused work and clear thought. A

Rumination can also make the depression stronger by creating conditions that are, well, more depressing.

On average, children are growing more lonely and depressed, more angry and unruly, more nervous and prone to worry, more impulsive and aggressive.

As he practiced more, added loving-kindness to the mix, and went on retreats, his PTSD symptoms gradually became less frequent, less intense.

A negatividade foca-nos num âmbito estreito – aquilo que nos perturba. Uma regra empírica na terapia cognitiva defende que focarmo-nos nos aspetos negativos da experiência é uma receita para a depressão.

The more everyday mindfulness, the greater the subjective boost in well-being.

los remedios más poderosos para acabar con el enfado consiste en volver a encuadrar la situación en un marco más positivo.

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The art of soothing ourselves is a fundamental life skill. The theory holds that emotionally sound infants learn to soothe themselves by treating themselves as their caretakers have treated them, leaving them less vulnerable to the upheavals of the emotional brain.

The power to disengage our attention from one thing and move it to another is essential for well-being.

Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain. "When I was retarded I had lots of

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Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis.

Inteligência sem a habilidade de dar ou receber afeto leva a um colapso mental e moral, para neurose, e possivelmente até para psicose.

However, robust evidence shows that people systematically overestimate the probability of positive future contingencies, and underestimate the probability of negative ones — only those who are depressed or dysphoric come to accurate assessments.

Depression, for me, has been a couple of different things – but the first time I felt it, I felt helpless, hopeless, and things I had never felt before. I lost myself and my will to live.

Don't believe every worried thought you have. Worried thoughts are notoriously inaccurate.

A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.

It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.