Quotes About Mental health

It may seem counterintuitive, but 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. Unfortunately, sometimes people leave just as their symptoms lift, not realizing (or perhaps knowing all too well) that the work is just beginning and that staying will require them to work even harder.

The effects of untreated mental health issues ripple throughout families for generations.

There's such a stigma attached to mental illness that people are often reluctant to talk about it, or admit that they, or someone they love, needs help.

Delta Force Operator Captain Brian "Hutch" Hutchinson hated group therapy almost as much as he hated the mind-warping meds.

Anger is not wrong. But if anger is uncontrolled, stuffed, misplaced, or given full vent, then anger can do us a lot of harm.

She did not read, she did nothing at all, and hours went by during which even her thoughts came to a standstill. At times she would abruptly throw herself on the floor and lie there pressing her face to the carpet with her eyes tightly closed, until a knock at the door – the maid bringing her lunch tray – made her scramble to her feet in sudden fright.

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

Would you really dig into yesterday's garbage to make tonight's meal? Do you dig into old mental garbage to create tomorrow's experiences? If a thought or belief does not serve you, let it go! There is no written law that says that because you once believed something, you have to continue to believe it forever.

Las pautas mentales causantes de la mayoría de los malestares del cuerpo son la crítica, la rabia, el resentimiento y la culpa.

So I refuse to focus on excess weight or on diets. For diets do not work. The only diet that does work is a mental diet — dieting from negative thoughts. I say to clients, "Let us just put that issue to one side for the time being while we work on a few other things first.

It will bring more good in. Please do not listen to the news or watch it on TV the last thing at night. The news is only a list of disasters, and you don't want to take that into your dream state. Much clearing work is done in the dream state, and you can ask your dreams for help with anything you are working on. You will often find an answer by morning. Go to sleep peacefully.

I'm sorry. I shouldn't be working." "Of course you should. I'm alright." "Even F.I.N.E.?" She laughed. "Especially that." Fucked-up. Insecure. Neurotic. Egotistical.

Happy people didn't drink themselves to sleep every night.

eventually that pain turned to bitterness, and the bitterness turned to anger, and the anger became rage. Until that rage became madness.

There's a fine line between noble perseverance and insanity,

When people are really depressed, they don't have the energy to kill themselves," said Myrna, who had once been a therapist in Montreal. "But as soon as they start feeling a little better, their energy comes back. They're still depressed, but now they can act.

Worrying doesn't change anything, just causes unnecessary stress.

I have occasionally thought that some [TV] hosts have needed treatment, and some of these hosts have even admitted they could benefit from therapy. Having said that, I think most people can benefit from treatment. Those who need it and refuse to get it generally have the most "issues."

And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.

Lacy truly believed that when you asked a patient How do you feel?, what was wrong wasn't nearly as important as what was right.

The mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

The thing that's important to remember about PTSD is that a traumatic event affects different people differently.

But let's be real. When you've already failed at killing yourself, anything else you might screw up seems minor.

not for the first time I think that someone's enterprising idea of therapy is another person's frustrated hell.