Quotes About Mental health

A depressão apaga a lembrança remota, tem memória curta, acentua a dor recente, quase desprezando qualquer traço de história

Psychoanalysis seemed an expensive, slow working, unreliable tranquilizer. If LSD were really to do what Alpert and Leary claimed for it, all psychiatrists would be out of a job overnight.

Importante papel está reservado aos psiquiatras. Aos profetas, acredito ainda mais nos profetas. Acho que eu seria mais útil se estudasse Medicina, de que vão adiantar no futuro as leis se agora já são o que se sabe. Uma psiquiatra maravilhosa. O chato é que quando leio um livro sobre doenças mentais, descubro em mim os sintomas de quase todas, uma psiquiatra por dentro demais da loucura.

Getting your finances right is essential to 100-year life, but money is far from being the most important resource. Family, friendships, mental health and happiness are all crucial components.

Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.

Several types of skin rash and hair loss have psychological causes.

Too many of us live with an uncontrolled thought life. It is possible to learn to identify destructive thoughts and make wiser choices. Instead of letting those thoughts rumble freely about in my mind, I make the choice to harness them and direct them toward truth.

We are to think about, ponder, and park our minds on constructive thoughts, not destructive thoughts.

Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.

My life and my mind, I realized, were screwed up enough without me adding to it with drugs.

I know depression is anger turned inward.

As Mrs. Carter in another context observed, there are adequate financial resources available to fund adequate mental health if we simply invest in the right kinds of programs—the ones that we know work—rather than squandering millions and millions of dollars and lives in jails and prisons.

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

I think you're a terrible person and I hope you get some psychiatric help. Go to hell.

It is when a parent's love is experienced as conditional on achievement that children are at risk for serious emotional problems.

It is now clear, however, that children of privilege are exhibiting unexpectedly high rates of emotional problems beginning in junior high school and accelerating throughout adolescence.

Strange as it may seem, people with an unconscious psychological need for symptoms tend to develop a disorder that is well known, like back pain, hay fever, or eczema.

It's all in your mind" is almost insulting, implying there's something strange or weak about you or that the symptoms are in your imagination. This is most unfortunate, since the symptoms are very real, the result of a very physical process.

Really, the only thing a psychiatrist can do that a good (fishing) guide can't is write prescriptions.

These are some of the most common symptoms of chronic stress in a man. Quite often they unfold in the following order over time, unless he is unable to find a way to return to his masculine side. 1.?Low motivation 2.?Apathy 3.?Rigidity or stubbornness 4.?Grumpiness 5.?Anger and irritability 6.?Resistance to change

fierce obsession with anything, and especially something as traumatic as a murder, was not healthy. Denise and Alfred had discussed it over the years, but not recently. They worried about Jeri, though they could do nothing to change her.

I read a story once about a guy who killed himself. Some shrink was going on about the futility of trying to understand it. It's impossible, makes no sense at all. Once a person reaches that point, he's in another world, one that his survivors will never understand.

A person who commits suicide is not thinking rationally

How could I be sure that I was not insane? I did not feel mad, but how was I to know what madness felt like?