Quotes About Mental health

We all feel anxious at times and acknowledging that only helps.

From as far back as I can remember, I was scared and anxious.

Grant me, sound of body and of mind, to pass an old age lacking neither honor nor the lyre.

The words with which a breakdown is treated are all medicalised - illness, treatment, nurse, doctor, meds - but the mechanism of treatment belongs to retribution: incarnation, surveillance, behaviour monitoring, parole. For crimes against normality, we get a label and a chemical life sentence. I hate this mechanism. I refuse to believe in it.

When we realize, really get to know what stinkers we are, it takes only a little depression to tip the scales in favor of suicide. - Dr. Walter Freeman (62)

She gives your son a lobotomy, and that's okay. Then she's mean to your dog and you get a divorce?

And has anything changed today? Where are the authorities now? How come any regular M.D. or pediatrician is allowed to diagnose depression or bipolar illness or ADD in children, and prescribe medications, without a second opinion? How many children are taking powerful brain medications now simply because their parents find them too difficult to handle? How many of those boys and girls are having their childhoods taken away from them, the way mine was taken away from me?

De psychiaters en, op hun manier, ook de biechtvaders hebben gelijk. Zorgen of angsten, die men uitpraat, relativeren zich tot wat binnen de grenzen valt van wat ons weerstandsvermogen zonder evenwichtsverstoring verdragen kan.

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Help me. Please, help me. If you really exist, you skinny jew bastard, help me kill myself.

Mental illness and substance abuse destroyed my family. Watching and caring for loved ones battle these diseases shaped my life. Now I have an opportunity and the platform to change the conversation around mental health from one that condemns and diminished those suffering, to one of empathy and support.

What happens to sanity when you chain it to a wall?

The mentally healthy individual is he who habitually calls upon fairly deep levels of vital reserves. An individual whose mind is allowed to become dormant - so that only the surface is disturbed - begins to suffer from'circulation problems'. Neurosis is the feeling of being cut off from your own powers.

Les psychiatres, c'est très efficace. Moi, avant, je pissais au lit, j'avais honte. Je suis allé voir un psychiatre, je suis guéri. Maintenant, je pisse au lit, mais j'en suis fier. Psychiatrists are very efficient. Before, I used to wet the bed. I went to see a psychiatrist, and was cured. Now, when I wet the bed, I'm proud of it.

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

With more than thirty thousand suicides a year, the act is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States.

She'd almost done therapy once before. But it was pretty clear after some research that she just had some post-traumatic stress and generalized anxiety, so it seemed easier to just skip the whole thing and rely on the online tips and tricks she found

Cuando no se tiene un buen amante, es necesario tener un buen psicoanalista: igual que un buen abogado, o un buen dentista.

Large-scale studies of thousands of youth show that the average anxiety level of a young person now exceeds the levels recorded by hospitalized psychiatric patients in the 1950s.

TWO THINGS HAVE ALWAYS SAVED MY LIFE: READING and singing. Books and music have comforted me, informed me, helped me define myself. It's impossible to overstate their importance to my mental health, spiritual sustenance, and survival on the planet.

Know also that you might find different parts of your soul scattered in different times, spaces, and lifetimes, and even lingering in between lifetimes. Ask the Divine to gather all parts of your soul and sew them together with love, cleansing, healing, and integrating them through this process. Many mental health disorders are actually outgrowths of a fragmented soul and begin to heal once we're made whole again.

My head cleared enough to realize she was talking to me slowly as if I was an unbalanced, crazy person, which was smart because I was an unbalanced, crazy person.

Bipolar disorder is so swept under the rug as a nation and, I think especially, by black people. It's not our culture to go get therapy. 'Give them medicine for what?' We put people in court, put them in court again, versus really paying attention to what it is they are going through.

I never told anyone how unhappy I was because I was also grateful I had a job versus so many people that didn't. I did not think I was allowed to be miserable, but I was overworked, sleep-deprived and just lost.