Quotes About Mental health

My mother had very poor hearing for many years, until she went basically into - I guess I would call it a psychotic break. She was OK one day, and the next day she was completely cuckoo, violent, paranoid.

Research has shown that the availability of mental health care prior, during, and after imprisonment reduces violent offending drastically.

Beyond ensuring that people everywhere have access to mental health, virtual digital assistants can act as learning companions, using their insight into what motivates and inspires you, to help you study and learn. In this way, AI could be used to level the playing field in education and help narrow socio-economic gaps around the world.

A lot of people who have depression understand that the last thing in the world you want to do when you're feeling that way is get up and exercise. It's virtually impossible to do that. It's like somebody beating you.

As far as I am concerned, virtually all psychological diseases have their origin in our conscious minds. And that is not what we are taught.

This global pandemic isn't just claiming lives directly from the virus - it is taking a massive toll on Queenslander's mental health.

Stress makes us prone to tunnel vision, less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety makes us more risk-averse than we would be regularly and more deferential.

Nobody wants to buy therapy anymore," the consultant said matter-of-factly. "They want to buy a solution to a problem.

therapy works best when people start getting better—when they feel less depressed or anxious, or the crisis has passed. Now they're less reactive, more present, more able to engage in the work.

As Andrew Solomon wrote in The Noonday Demon: "The opposite of depression isn't happiness, but vitality.

happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder and be included in future editions of the major diagnostic manuals under the new name: major affective disorder, pleasant type.

No matter how open we as a society are about formerly private matters, the stigma around our emotional struggles remains formidable.

We can't convince people not to be self-destructive, because for now, the self-destruction serves them. What we can do is try to help them understand themselves better and show them how to ask themselves the right questions until something happens—either internally or externally—that leads them to do their own persuading.

the upside of being a therapist's child is that nothing gets shoved under the rug; the downside

most therapists per capita are, in descending order, Argentina, Austria, Australia, France, Canada, Switzerland, Iceland, and the United States.)

Wendell once pointed out that we talk to ourselves more than we'll talk to any other person over the course of our lives but that our words aren't always kind or true or helpful—or even respectful. Most of what we say to ourselves we'd never say to people we love or care about, like our friends or children. In therapy, we learn to pay close attention to those voices in our heads so that we can learn a better way to communicate with ourselves.

Feeling your sadness or anxiety can also give you essential information about yourself and your world.

I was finding it hard to manage my negative thoughts because, outside of Wendell's office, they didn't have much of an outlet.

In therapy we aim for self-compassion (Am I human?) versus self-esteem (a judgment: Am I good or bad?).

although, as the saying goes, "Before diagnosing people with depression, make sure they're not surrounded by assholes"),

numbness isn't the absence of feelings; it's a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings.

They may not be able to imagine their depression lifting anytime soon, but they don't need to. Doing something prompts you to do something else, replacing a vicious cycle with a virtuous one.

I hadn't considered that if the only thing that keeps you going all day is knowing you'll get to turn on the TV after dinner, you probably are depressed.

But those underreported numbers are still high. In any given year, some thirty million American adults are sitting on clinicians' couches, and the United States isn't even the world leader in therapy. (Fun fact: the countries with the most therapists per capita are, in descending order, Argentina, Austria, Australia, France, Canada, Switzerland, Iceland, and the United States.)