Quotes About Mental health

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

A waist is a terrible thing to mind.

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

obsessive-compulsive behavior? When we obsess, and obsess, and obsess, we eventually wear down our bodies to the point where the body just doesn't work anymore. If you are obsessive, your mind constantly runs away with you to a dark place, dwelling on the extreme and horrific. Instead, we're told:

Seven severely depressed prisoners were listed as having died of "nostalgia.

Research shows that those who believe in a wrathful God are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety disorders than those who believe in a loving, merciful God.

Los extravertidos, como Alicia, que echan fuera el lastre de sus emociones, tienen menos riesgo de enloquecer que los introvertidos que se guardan para sí las toxinas emotivas con las que acaban envenenándose por no saber o no querer eliminarlas.

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

all emotions are derivations of five core feelings: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and shame.

If you were to lock me away in a white room in a straitjacket it would actually feel comforting as long as the walls were spotless and nobody wore shoes. - Allyson

In the city Maiguru's brother immediately made an appointment with a psychiatrist. We felt better—help was at hand. But the psychiatrist said that Nyasha could not be ill, that Africans did not suffer in the way we had described. She was making a scene. We should take her home and be firm with her.

to record the five steps in as much detail as you can, along with whatever thoughts, associations, or memories are triggered by the demon.

Facebook's photo-sharing site Instagram may be even worse for human well-being. A 2017 survey by the British Royal Society for Public Health found that Instagram was the most harmful of all the major social networks. Use of the app caused loneliness, anxiety over body image, and other maladies.

She closed her eyes and tried to see if a future unfolded around that idea. Would she end up in the asylum?

I'll be in therapy for the rest of my life – as long as I can afford it. I can't think of anyone who wouldn't benefit. Being able to talk to a stranger and tell them everything is of enormous value – creatively and emotionally.

The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!

self-stigma is not a person's fault; nor is it a part of the person's illness! If the public did not hold negative and stigmatizing attitudes in the first place, these would never have become internalized, causing people the painful and disabling experience of self-stigma.

The smartphone is a gateway to endless work. Workers should have the right to close the gate. (Goodbye Phone)

People who are too sensitive go crazy, remember that

A long-simmering resentment against the world can burn off more calories than you might imagine.

According to Laing, the apparently incomprehensible and self-contradictory language of the schizophrenic is often a gnomic expression of the twisted truth that the patient is unable to express.

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

Dear Depression, please keep your distance. Don't be nasty. Find some other person with more reason than me to look in the mirror and say: "What a pointless existence." Whether you like it or not, I know how to defeat you. You're wasting your time.