Quotes About Mental health

My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ...He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.

Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem.

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.

No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.

Suicide is very contagious.

Respetar cuanto uno ha de respetar; no protestar por nada; no sufrir jamás la molestia de no tener confianza en sí mismo; no enredarse jamás en la obsesión ni ser torturado por la incapacidad, envenenado por el resentimiento, impulsado por la cólera…

Dr. Paul Tournier expresses this pattern in the language of psychiatry: "God blots out conscious guilt, but He brings to consciousness repressed guilt.

Still, she felt absolutely sick inside, and as soon as she walked into her classroom, she knew that everyone was looking at her, even the teacher, as though at any moment she might stand up and do something crazy. Wally, in fact, kept leaning forward in his seat as if she might go berserk and take a bite out of his shoulder or something.

You know, Jean, maybe it's a good thing we had all girls. If those Hatford boys belonged to us, we'd be in a mental ward.

Codependents don`t just wake up one day saying I think I'll move over into maturity and mental health

I talk to myself a lot, but it seldom does any good. I'm a tense kid. I know it. But I have good reason to be tense.

I'm insane, not forgetful.

There were a few things scarier than a bipolar vampire off his meds, but to be honest, not that many.

It's been happening since I was in kindergarten. Not them all the time, but other kids, you know. Every day. It never stops, and it never goes away, thanks to the Internet--it just keeps happening every minute, every day. And I just want it to stop. I think about how to do it, you know. How to kill them. All kinds of elaborate things, like trapping them in pits and burying them alive, or covering them with concrete.

I'm fine," I automatically tell her, because that's what I always tell her. And myself. But it doesn't take a paid psychologist to figure out that I'm not okay. I'm having flashbacks. Cold sweats. Nightmares. And now this

Connor already has anxiety issues. Lanny acts out on a regular basis. None of us is whole anymore.

All monsters have their fits of depression.

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,' said he. 'Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.

Greater self-awareness," he'd told Rocky on a night when sleep wouldn't come, "doesn't make a species any happier, pal. If it did, we'd have fewer psychiatrists and barrooms...

If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.

Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.