Quotes About Mental health

Our prime duty towards ourself and others is to immediately redirect our negative thoughts to a positive, empowering affirmation.

I know what happens to people who get bullied, they end up thinking they really are no good! It doesn't matter that they work so hard they fall asleep at their desks, it's still never enough! They get timid and jumpy and make wrong decisions, and that means more bullying because, you see, the bully is never going to stop, whatever they do. The person being bullied will do anything to make it stop, but it never will! I'm not going to put up with that.

Most diseases are caused not so much by what we eat, but more by what is eating us.

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

Sometimes all you can do is laugh to keep youself from crying.

When things in the real world get too stressful, take a short while to close your eyes and visualize something nice. Go to your happy place in your mind and think of things that make you smile. Your imagination can help improve your mood more than you think.

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?

Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in the book learn to say: That's my depression talking. It's not "me." As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see.

Drinking when you are depressed is like throwing kerosene on a fire", I read in another self-help book at the bookstore. What depression felt like a fire? I think, shoving the book back on the shelf.

88. Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in the book all learn to say: That's my depression talking. It's not "me." 89. As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see. 90.

I am getting the bad feeling that my friends are growing tired of me. I am growing tired of me, too.

That's my depression talking. It's not "me." 89. As if we could scrape the color off the iris and still see.

I polled several friends to see how much time they would grant between "a blinding, bad time" and a life that has simply become a depressive waste; the consensus was around seven years. This bespeaks the generosity of my friends -- I imagine most Americans would give themselves a year, maybe two, before they castigated themselves into some form of yanking up the bootstraps.

To be depressed is, very simply, to be stopped short in one's life.

Fear—real, honest-to-God debilitating fear—is an affliction.

Let people know when you feel unhappy, disappointed, or hurt about something. Once the feeling has been acknowledged by you—not necessarily by others—it tends to dissipate and is less likely to trouble you. If you hold your feelings inside, you are apt to explode at some minor incident, potentially causing still more harm to your health. Own up to what is in your heart and make peace with it forever.

Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.

Le doute méthodique est d'ordinaire le signe d'une bonne santé mentale : c'est pourquoi des soldats harassés, au coeur trouble ne pouvaient le pratiquer

It's called Betty Blue," he said. "You watch, I'll translate.

I always think about suicide because I find it relaxing.

Self-quieting skills refer to a child's ability to calm himself or herself, with no help from an adult, when the child is unhappy, angry, or frustrated.

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.

Depression is good at making you think it's not even there and that you are the problem. Depression wants you to think you made a choice to be this way.