Quotes About Mental health

Sometimes... the first step to forgiveness is realizing that the other person... is batshit crazy.

I'm creating a self help show called Self Talk. I'll insult myself for an hour then open phone lines to a fitness coach & my mother-in-law.

People seem to overlook an old man losing his mind if he occasionally made light of it.

There were a few things scarier than a bipolar vampire off his meds, but to be honest, not that many.

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value.

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

And people who don't dream, who don't have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can't imagine that.

Sometimes staying strong means not putting yourself in uncomfortable or triggering situations.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.

Anger, hatred, fear, is very bad for our health

Everyone's on the cliff edge of normal. Everyone finds life an utter nightmare sometimes, and there's no 'normal' way of dealing with it... There is no normal, Evelyn.

To the deepest, most cellular level of my being, I resent people who believe that depression is the same as weakness, that "sad" people must be coddled like helpless toddlers.

Does psychiatrists' ability to prescribe drugs give them an advantage over psychologists in places where psychologists cannot prescribe them? Not always. Drugs can be useful, but relying entirely on them can be a mistake. Whereas a typical visit to a clinical psychologist includes an extensive discussion of the issues troubling the client, many visits to a psychiatrist are briefer sessions that focus on checking the effectiveness of a drug and evaluating its side effects.

There ain't nothing wrong with being alone, which is what I am, or what I have been. It's when it turns to loneliness, when you get to feeling blue about it all, that you're in trouble. There's the problem, loneliness.

If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

When you are depressed, believing you have failed at something regularly referred to as 'the plan of happiness' can very quickly generate despair.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

I was in that dark, self-destructive place. I was up one minute, down the next. Soaring and crashing and crashing and soaring; the roller coaster from hell.