Quotes About Mental health

Survivors who look perfectly fine on the outside can still be emotionally empty at the core. And because of that, they can't always connect with their kids or their spouses—or they make the conscious decision not to connect, so that they don't fail the people they love.

The people with thriving careers and healthy personal relationships get the same amount of time each week as the burned-out professional who can't remember their last meaningful conversation with a family member.

Another case in which fish oils may be useful is the individual who does not convert omega-3 fats into DHA sufficiently. These people may be more prone to depression, allergies, and inflammatory skin disease such as eczema. There are blood tests available for a physician to analyze the fatty acid balance on red blood cell membranes and thereby determine a deficiency of DHA or omega-3 fat.

Friendship with children eliminates the propensity for suicide in society.

He suddenly became convinced that if he didn't do something sensible, something to put his mind to some use, then before he knew it he would be wondering round the streets having fights with himself and inviting domestic animals to social occasions too.

There is an absolutist quality to rage. Being angry all the time and overreacting to little things may be a sign that there is a deeper rage that needs to be worked on.

Eating disorders. You don't know when you feel empty or hungry. You eat to fill up. You eat to feel full.

When a person represses over the course of a number of years, intelligence is greatly contaminated and diminished. The frozen patterns become chronic patterns. It is as if the "on" button is stuck and plays all the time. Figure 4.6 shows how little intelligence is left uncontaminated.

You have no memories of painful events of your childhood; you have a split personality; you depersonalize; you can't remember people's names or even the people you were with two years ago. You are out of touch with your body and your feelings.

Psychiatrist David Shainberg argued that mental illness, which appears chaotic, is actually the reverse. Mental illness occurs when images of the self become rigid and closed, restricting an open creative response to the world.

English heart surgeon Martyn Lloyd-Jones asserted, "Most unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself rather than talking to yourself." What kind of voices do you hear? When you face new experiences, does a voice in your head say you're going to fail? If you're hearing negative messages, you need to learn to give yourself positive mental pep talks.

British journalists tend to believe that people who become good at something do so because they seek fame and fortune. This is because these are the sole motives of people who become British journalists. But some people, operating at higher levels of mental health, pursue activities because they actually love them.

Depression is often the result of over thinking, sometimes our minds tend to create problems that initially didn't exist.

I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.

Some feelings don't really go away, they just get avoided.

Instead of worrying about things that will never happen, learn to bury worry. Kill worry before worry kills you.

Depression is only a negative state of mind and it's not permanent. Whatever is holding you back leave it behind, get it out of your mind.

People don't really know what depression is like unless you have it. They think that giving you a good day will heal you and make you happy again; but really it's just another memory to cry about. Because once you realize how sad life is, you can't ever think a different way ever again.

Insecurities have the ability to shape and mold our minds to live with everything thats bad; like crying on the inside, while smiling on the outsidethus creating painbut, alas, I have the answer; forget about what you thought and enjoy, embrace) what you feel

What would happen if u prayed everytime u felt scared, sad, lonley, depressed? hmmm

I am happy, thats just the saddest lie...

You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

Therapy is expensive, poppin' bubble wrap is cheap! You choose.