Quotes About Mental health

I'm not a model. I don't really think much about how I look. If I did, I'd go mad.

People tend to think of psychopaths as criminals. In fact, the majority of psychopaths aren't criminal.

I get really manic on set, and then to just get myself to a place where I'm alone in my apartment again, it's like this recalibrating thing that happens.

Alright, so I'm a manic depressive. What do you want from me?

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

I was moving in a narrow range between busy distractedness and a pervasive sadness whose granules seemed to enter each cell, weighing it down... I ghosted between islands of anxiety... a fatigue that dulled my zest, decanted it. Sorrow felt like a marble coat I couldn't shed.

After a great many questions I eventually ascertained that he is suffering from some kind of disorder of the mind. Is there anything more sorrowful than a brain whose proper function has been disrupted?

Peace of mind in a profit-oriented context.

Whatever teaches us to talk to ourselves is important: whatever teaches us to sing ourselves our of despair.

What I did experience when alone was a sort of general neurotic horror, a common attack of nerves and self-loathing magnified to the power of ten

It's not letting your anger out that gets people hurt. Its keeping the anger locked up in side that hurts you.

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

College Psychology 101 explained that children cannot learn when they are hungry, smelly or teased.

Psychiatry is the management of despair.

Early on, if I was alone two or three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.

When I cut, I'm the one controlling the pain. I know where it's coming from. I know that it's me who's doing it, me and no one else.

Why America has never made the connection between tract housing and psychosis is beyond me

It's a lot easier to be crazy or mad than to just get on with living.

Until she met Peter, she had her meds figured out and it was like she finally got it, how to manage meds with sleep and diet. She hadn't had a manic episode for ages until he convinced her to go off her meds and let him take care of her. He was against all medication.

When the HMOs started haggling with her about how long to treat a person with depression or panic attacks that turned people into prisoners in their home, she knew that she would abandon her career if she had to keep dealing with insurance companies.

I wanted to climb into her world and live in it with her. She was beautiful and kind and funny and identified as "certified crazy." I learned that certified crazy meant nothing to lose, nothing to be afraid of, nothing to be self-conscious about.

What you need to do is build the house you will live in. You build that house by laying a solid foundation: by building physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

Depression: Is it a human condition one can live with or a condition on should succumb to?