Quotes About Mental health

There was more to her than a flat line of mild to moderate depression, spiced up with occasional flourishes of despair.

I was convinced I wasn't made for the reality of the world. And in a way, I was right. I wasn't made for the world. I was, like everyone, made by the world. I was made by parents and culture and TV and books and politics and school and maybe even shopping centres. So, I either needed a new me. Or a new planet. And I didn't yet know how to find either. Which is why I felt suicidal.

Sometimes depression triggers anxiety.

You must never wait in pain,' said the specialist, or words to that effect. It was a message I would think of years later when I was suicidal. 'You must see to it straight away. It doesn't go away by pretending it isn't there.

The more you research the science of depression, the more you realise it is still more characterised by what we don't know than what we do. It is 90 per cent mystery.

Let's just understand this. If we are tired or hungry or hungover, we are likely to be in a bad mood. That bad mood is therefore not really us. To believe in the things we feel at that point is wrong, because those feelings would disappear with food or sleep.

But by not taking it, I became very in tune with myself. This helped me know what exactly made me feel better (exercise, sunshine, sleep, intense conversation, etc.) and this alertness, an alertness I know from myself and others can be lost via pills, eventually helped me build myself back up from scratch. If I had been dulled or felt that otherness meds can make you feel, things might have been harder.

The thing with mental turmoil is that so many things that make you feel better in the short term make you feel worse in the long term. You distract yourself, when what you really need is to know yourself.

The one thing depression has told you is that a day can be a long and intense stretch of time.

I have carefully calculated that the pain of me living as the bloody disaster that is myself is greater than the pain anyone else will feel if I were to die.

Sadness seemed to me like a disease, and I worried it was contagious.

it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness.

I am a waste of a carbon footprint, to be honest.

Overloaded neurons on a nervous planet

A lot of depressed people turn to travel as an antidote to their symptoms.

Depresiv". Toat? lumea ar purta o etichet? dac? ar întreba specialistul potrivit.

anything that lessens that extreme sense of self, that makes me feel me but at a lower volume, is very welcome.

Love. Anaïs Nin called anxiety "love's greatest killer." But fortunately, the reverse is also true. Love is anxiety's greatest killer.

Maybe we should be looking at how we live, and how our minds weren't made for the lives we lead.

When normality becomes madness, the only way to find sanity is by daring to be different.

So, I either needed a new me. Or a new planet. And I didn't yet know how to find either. Which is why I felt suicidal.

She'd been petrified of motherhood. The fear of a deeper depression. She couldn't look after herself, let alone anyone else.

I rarely said "I have depression" or "I am currently experiencing depression", because I imagined that depression was the sum of who I was... the trouble is, that I had a very binary view of things. I thought that you were either well or ill, sane or insane.

Because of some strange predictive homesickness that festered alongside a depression that told her, ultimately, she didn't deserve to be happy.