Quotes About Mental health

If pills work for you it doesn't really matter if this is to do with serotonin or another process or anything else.- keep taking them. Hell, if licking wallpaper does it for you, do that. I am not anti pill. I am pro anything that works and I know pill do work for a lot of people.

A million people a year kill themselves. Between ten and twenty million people a year try to. Worldwide, men are over three times more likely to kill themselves than women.

There is no right or wrong way to have depression, or to have a panic attack, or to feel suicidal.

depression is a disease of thoughts.

I was scared. I couldn't not be. Being scared is what anxiety is all about.

So, as physical health and mental health are intertwined, couldn't the same be said about the modern world? Couldn't aspects of how we live in the modern world be responsible for how we feel in the modern world?

THE WORLD IS increasingly designed to depress us. Happiness isn't very good for the economy.

Lincoln is not the only famous leader to have battled depression. Winston Churchill lived with the 'black dog' for much of his life too. Watching a fire, he once remarked to a young researcher he was employing: 'I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed.

Time disproves the lies depression tells.

Because inside there is a golden you who loves you and wants you to win and prevail and be happy. #reasonstostayalive

The doctor says it's situational depression. It's just that I keep on having new … situations.

Personally, for me, I am happy that I largely mended myself without the aid of medication, and feel that having to experience the pain minus any "anesthetic" meant I got to know my pain very well, and become alert to the subtle upward or downward shifts in my mind.

Why do so many men still kill themselves? What is going wrong? The common answer is that men, traditionally, see mental illness as a sign of weakness and are reluctant to seek help. Boys don't cry.

I was better. I was better. But it only takes a doubt. A drop of ink falls into a clear glass of water and clouds the whole thing. So the moment after I realized I wasn't perfectly well was the moment I realized I was still very ill indeed.

I am just saying if you knew about me there would be a very strong chance you would think I was insane.

Don't attach yourself to people, and try to feel as little as you possibly can for those you do meet. Because otherwise you will slowly lose your mind

Depression lies. And while the feelings themselves were real, the things they led me to believe were resolutely not.

IT'S A WEIRD thing, depression. Even now, writing this with a good distance of fourteen years from my lowest point, I haven't fully escaped.

If the modern world is making us feel bad, then it doesn't matter what else we have going for us, because feeling bad sucks.

She wouldn't poison herself with the pressures of imagined perfection.

When looking at triggers for mental health problems, therapists often identify an intense change in someone's life as a major factor.

If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better.

At its worst you find yourself wishing, desperately, for any other affliction, any physical pain, because the mind is infinite, and its torments – when they happen – can be equally infinite.

AS DR DAVID Adam says in his brilliant account of obsessive compulsive disorder, The Man Who Couldn't Stop: 'Only a fool or a liar will tell you how the brain works.' A brain is not a toaster. It is complex.