Quotes About Mental health

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Sometimes you need to stop fighting to stop drowning

Hope is the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. ... All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.

The things that make us human often make us ill.

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.

The person who has a sense of humor is not just more relaxed in the face of a potentially stressful situation, but is more flexible in his approach.

Last week I told my psychiatrist, 'I keep thinking about suicide', and he told me from now I have to pay in advance.

I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.

I can't decide whether to commit suicide or go bowling.

Laugh at your worries and insecurities. View your anxieties with humor. It will be difficult at first, but you'll gradually get used to it.

You can hear my dreams? God, you must never get any quiet. I'd be shooting myself in the head if I were you.

Even bipolar vampires needed sleep from time to time, and he was well past his recommended safe dosage of stress.

You know, my main goal in life is trying not to end up in a straightjacket.

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

I've always used humor, but I use humor when coping with things in general.

You gotta laugh because if you didn't you'd cry

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

I know that I'm crazy. And that has made all the difference." From: Furiously Happy: A funny book about horrible things.

One has to develop a sense of humor to cope.

He only drinks when he gets depressed, ' said Carrot. 'Why does he get depressed?' 'Sometimes it's because he hasn't had a drink.

Nothing mitigates the throes of depression like a steaming plate of spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce and grated parmasan cheese, with a good fresh bread to wipe up.

I think I might be bi-polar. It's not normal to be this emotionally unstable.

I'm quite certain that if I lost my sense of humor, it would most definitely need to be replaced by a padded cell.