Quotes About Mental health

This is a busy week with me and lunatics, whom I tend to see as either signs or messengers.

He told me that his sister is clinically depressed and read Naked during a month-long visit to a psychiatric hospital. According to him, once she'd finished, she loaned it to a fellow patient, who, in turn, loaned it to someone else. The book seemed to lift people's spirits, and as a result, the hospital has made it recommended reading. I'm not sure whether I believe this, but it's extremely flattering to think my book is being passed around a German asylum.

Whenever we passed the place [Dix Hill, the local state mental hospital], my sisters and I would stick our heads out the car window, expecting to hear a hysterical voice cackling, "I'm mad, I tell you, MAD!" The patient would embrace his lunacy as though it were a treasure he had discovered hidden beneath the floor-boards. "Mad! mad!

She'd heard so many tales about the way love could save one's sanity; no one had ever told her hate could do the same.

Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.

Y si uno se siente demasiado solo incluso para suicidarse?

We may proclaim that stress kills, but in reality it is not stress that kills; it is our reaction to it. Sometimes we react to the Light by finding various ways of shutting it out. But when we shut off the Light, we are in fact killing ourselves - so the idea is not to turn stress away, but to let it in.

But that never was true. Glenn was as sane as I am, and, my dear, that's pretty sane, I'll have you remember. But he must have suffered some terrible blight to his spirit--some blunting of his soul.

Depression, in Karla's experience, was a dull, inert thing - a toad that squatted wetly on your head until it finally gathered the energy to slither off. The unhappiness she had been living with for the last ten days was a quite different creature. It was frantic and aggressive. It had fists and fangs and hobnailed boots. It didn't sit, it assailed. It hurt her. In the mornings, it slapped her so hard in the face that she reeled as she walked to the bathroom.

The truth is, if we abuse ourselves with too much work and too little play, our body is eventually going to fight back, and the results can be terrible.

I've got ADHD. I don't mind talking about that.

I think I'm getting a little bit of Alzheimer's. Just a little.

I have had anxiety literally my whole life.

The most challenging part of my life is probably my anxiety, to be honest. I have to try to keep it under control and to make sure I feel alright.

No one wants to be a source of anxiety to everybody they know.

I have anxiety.

I'm sure I'm one of those undiagnosed people with social anxiety.

The thing is, I really like working. If I sit around too much, I get really bad anxiety.

As a 14-year-old with anxiety, to have read about that in a book would have helped me so much.

I love playing football, and ultimately, that helped me get over my anxiety problems.

I've always had anxiety, I just don't think it's ever been triggered in a way where it's become a physical attack so when it first started happening to me, it was so scary because I didn't know what was going on.

I am always anxious.

When you're a bit of an anxious person, and you constantly worry about things, there comes a point where certain jobs are just really bad for you.

I don't know if I was born an alcoholic, but I was definitely born anxious.