Quotes About Mental health

There's such a thing as trying too hard, he told himself. It causes constipation of the mind. But such admonishments did no good. He was still as blocked as a pipe full of concrete.

pace the corridor back and forth until I wear the edge off my nerves or just collapse unconscious from exhaustion

All junkies are nuts.

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How we understand our problems has an effect on how we cope.

You were having nightmares, Marshal. Serious nightmares." "I'm in a mental institution on an island in a hurricane," Teddy said. "Touché," Cawley said.

searched for reasons not to blow my brains out. I came up with two or three dozen real fast, but I still wasn't certain I could listen to many more conversations between Brandon and one of his "bras.

thousands of years of study and experience have made it easier to heal the body, but no one has gotten much past square one on the human mind.

When we ignore the pain, it grows bigger and bigger, and like an abscess that is never drained, eventually it will rupture. When that happens, it can reach into every area of our lives—our health, our families, our jobs, our friendships, our faith, and our very ability to feel joy may be diminished by the fallout from resentments, anger, and hurts that are never named.

Shell shock, they said in the First World War. Battle fatigue, in the Second. It's what happens when you live through things you shouldn't have been able to live through and can't reconcile that knowledge with the fact that you did.

I was older, heavier, and completely berserk.

I was so surprised, astonished, when I lost my mind, because I didn't think that I ever would. I assumed I would always be just fine.

When I have anxiety attacks, I always think I'm having a heart attack.

I honestly think I had a massive dose of body dysmorphia.

Whenever I have too much downtime, I start to get sad.

Actually, I used to think that it was normal to feel bad, like, Doesn't everybody feel like this? It was only when my drinking really got out of control that people went, 'Troy, you need to see somebody.'

I have really bad anxiety and OCD. I get afraid of everyone I know dying.

Antidepressants can have troubling side effects and are addictive for some people.

I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old.

I take antidepressants, which I was embarrassed about for a long time, but it keeps me going.

I encourage anyone to try to stop negative self-talk because it's a really powerful thing.

I've stopped reading news and even in the movies and web-series I watch, I'm ensuring that I'm watching only positive stuff.

With my anxiety, I essentially need to be around someone at all times.

Thinking about all that was exhausting. Despite the hours I'd spent getting shrink-wrapped, I still wasn't sold that talking did a whole heck of a lot except let everyone else know what was going on inside your head. It's not like talking ever made anything go away.