Quotes About Mental health

At some point within the first month I started talking to myself, which wouldn't have been so bad if it weren't for the fact that I was also answering myself. I'd never imagined how crucial English was to my sense of a unified self—part

Once we get used to looking at thoughts the moment they appear and then allowing them to dissipate before they overwhelm the mind, it is much easier to maintain control over the mind and to manage the conflictive emotions in our active lives.

With the help of experience, we can deal with negative emotions before they surface. We can "see them coming" and learn to distinguish those that bring suffering from those that contribute to happiness.

change, even a tiny one, in the way we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret the world can significantly change our existence. Changing the way we experience transitory emotions leads to a change in our moods and to a lasting transformation of our way of being. Such "therapy" targets the sufferings that afflict most of us and seeks to promote the optimal flourishing of the human being.

In depression, all that is happening in the present is the anticipation of pain in the future, and the present qua present no longer exists at all.

Martin Seligman once told me, "The best it [psychoanalysis] can do is to bring us from minus ten to zero.

Since sane people find the insane impenetrable and irreducible, they consider themselves the sole owners of rationality.

You can't eat straight A's.

The difference between mad people and sane people . . . is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

Low self esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

The underlying emotional problem has the same common denominator in every patient. This common denominator is that the patient has forgotten how, or probably never learned how, to control his present thinking to produce enjoyment.

This common denominator is that the patient has forgotten how, or probably never learned how, to control his present thinking to produce enjoyment.

You can be the smartest, most beautiful woman in the world," Nyela said, "but if you can't control your weight, you won't be happy.

Books were an antidepressant, a powerful SSRI.

There was no life Dennis burned to live except, it seemed, a life that wasn't depressed.

It was exhausting being a schizophrenic, which he was still convinced he was.

He was a little young to go crazy, but it happened to people.

In this, where nurses paced the floor like night watchmen in the bleak hours, lay fragmented women.

City is a madhouse! Don't stay there too much or you get mad! Go to the nature, to the Temple of the Clever!

but she seemed to be made more of nerves than muscle and was always clutching at herself mentally, starting at shadows of thoughts that crept up on her.

And if I get a little chemically imbalanced in the head, like we all know I tend to get sometimes, and I don't want my parents or brother knowing, Will's like, 'We'll deal with it.' He's never said, 'I'll fix it up.' He just says, 'You're not up to going back to uni to finish your Honours this year? Big deal. There's next year. We'll deal with it.'" She nods. "That's what he does well.

Sometimes your whole system just shuts down and you wake up in the morning and everything's black and no matter how much people speak to you and try to talk you out of it and tell you everything's okay, it doesn't work.

I'd run you know. It's like when you're really busy doing something and you don't have time to think about things. Well, I'd run and run and run so I couldn't think.

The depression belongs to all of us. I think of the family down the road whose mother was having a baby and they went around the neighborhood saying, "We're pregnant." I want to go around the neighborhood saying, "We're depressed." If my mum can't get out of bed in the morning, all of us feel the same. Her silence has become ours, and it's eating us alive.