Quotes About Mental health

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.

Join with those who sing, tell stories, take pleasure in life, and have joy in their eyes, because joy is contagious and can prevent others from becoming paralyzed by depression, loneliness, and difficulties.

a mental hospital, insanity, an insane asylum, where people were not ashamed to say that they were crazy, where no one stopped doing something they were enjoying just to be nice to others.

Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it.

By midway through Kindergarten- that's age five or six- they've learned from their peers to knock that stuff off, at least in public: to disconnect from feelings, shun intimacy, and become hierarchical in their behavior. The lifelong physical and mental health consequences of that gender performance are ingrained as early as ten. By fourteen boys become convinced that other guys will lose respect for them if they talk about problems.

I understood that impulse. I felt so broken, my well-being so battered- who was going to give me an Rx for that?

Chögyam Trungpa put it, "Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

When we multitask and split up our mind into a million directions, we are actually creating our own suffering, because these habits strengthen strong emotional reactivity and discursive thought.

We can make ourselves miserable, or we can make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same. Right now we are creating our state of mind for tomorrow, not to mention this afternoon, next week, next year, and all the years of our lives.

Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and contolled it, whereas the sadness owned her.

Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.

Freeze when you are angry: your brain needs time to cleanse the anger!

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most important thing I have said.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

Art can do much, but this maxim's most sure/A weak or wounded brain admits no cure.

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health.

There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

Have a healthy mental attitude; that's the most important thing and the best thing you can do for yourself.

We all need a daily checkup from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes.

Burnout also leads to a large swath of physicians who aren't as empathetic toward their patients as they could be.