Quotes About Mental health

Learning to be with our experience is not easy. It can feel counterintuitive, like the last thing one should sensibly do. Hearing our thoughts can be even scarier. It can help to recognize that we are not our thoughts, and that we don't have to act out our thoughts. We don't have to believe our thoughts. We don't have to identify with our thoughts.

People with BPD judge themselves harshly all the time and find judgments lurking around the corner of every raised eyebrow, sneeze, yawn, or shoulder shrug. You must be acutely aware of how your responses can be misconstrued as judgments.

It is not necessary to get into a fight with someone because you feel angry; aggressive behavior does not have to be a knee-jerk response to anger. By practicing mindfulness, people with BPD can learn to slow themselves down and have more control over how they will respond.

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

karoshi (death by overwork).

Le suicide n'est qu'une solution individuelle; pas socialiste par conséquent.

No one wants to get too close to a madwoman. Or men who have monkeys for pets.

Depression is a glove over the heart. Depression is an image of a glove over the image of a heart.

Being in good physical shape is the best way to combat depression. You just have endorphins running around your body. It is the best anti-depressive that there is.

It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

It is my experience that the best way to deal with American politics is 50 milligrams of Zoloft 3 times a day.

Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.

The best therapists can do with sadness, anger, and anxiety is to help patients live in the more comfortable part of their set range.

I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?

We don't judge people for dying in car crashes. But we do judge people when they die of suicide.

I think that emotions affect you as much as x-rays and vitamins and car crashes.

Clouds come and go without harming the sky. Like that, thoughts come and go without harming our mind. Whether we like it or not, the thoughts keep coming. That's just how things are. We don't have to see it as a problem

Suomi had, over three decades and with funding from the NIH, deprived hundreds of infant monkeys of contact with their mothers, isolated them in small metal cages, and deliberately caused them to suffer anxiety, depression, diarrhea, hair loss, and to engage in forms of self-mutilation such as biting themselves and pulling out their own hair—social, emotional, and physical harm that lasted through their lives.

If your house is an overstuffed mess, I've learned that more often than not, it's a warning sign that you have some type of trouble—large or small—in your mental and emotional well-being. In turn, a chaotic home that leaves little room for you and the other people inside can threaten your mental and physical health.

At other times the school has been less successful. As an institution, the school has not always been able to meet the unique needs of all of it students. For some of these students, RVA has exacerbated personal problems that might have been dealt with in a healthier way elsewhere. p219

You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up? Fat said. There are worse diseases than cancer. Did he show you slides? We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh at what you can.

My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression