Quotes About Mental health

I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

Here's how it is: I feel guilty about every single bite of food that goes into my mouth.

I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much.

Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not positive.

I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I'm living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.

The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends and if they seem okay then you're the one.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

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

Golf has probably kept more people sane than psychiatrists have.

I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.

Discover your true inner self, follow your dreams, desire & aspiration with passion. It will feed mental & emotional health.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

Suicide is a permanent solution for a temporary problem. You are so very beautiful, and so is life. You have so much to live for. Someone will miss you. Stay.

No one should feel so low, to the point where they feel like they need to use suicide as a way out.

I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when I talk myself into doing so, I taste only shame. I have an eating disorder.

If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.