Quotes About Mental health

You should always pay full price for a haircut, but if you have the chance to buy discount therapy you should grab it, because the markup on that shit is insane.

Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

There are always suicides, Garp wrote, among people who are unable to say what they mean.

No. That was out of the question. Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and world-view and mind.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. BERTRAND RUSSELL

Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern.

Running has made being depressed impossible. If I'm going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured I'll come back with clarity.

Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.

This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness

I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

If I feel any sort of emotional upheaval, I go for a jog and I feel better.

When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.

Emotional function and cognitive function aren't unrelated to each other. They're completely intertwined.

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from... from... wait, what was I saying?

My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time.

There are a lot of things that I'm allowing myself to be, but it's a conscious effort to experience contentment for me. My brain doesn't do that naturally. I'm very overwhelmed all of the time.