Quotes About Mental health

I must visit a psychiatrist to check if there's any sanity left in me.

Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people's moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three months later.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

With sadness specifically, in America you read about people medicating to avoid sadness. They don't want to experience sadness, and yet it's such a vital part of being human.

For many people who face anxieties, depression, trauma or grief that dominate their lives, a vital source of support may be a counsellor or psychotherapist.

It's vital that someone with a mental health issue is given the chance to open up to someone and discuss how they're feeling, to help relieve the pressure they may be keeping to themselves.

I've been very vocal in the past about my mental health issues.

I feel like mental health is not something people are vocal enough about, but it's something that everyone struggles with.

We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are no longer at all habituated to our own voices, except in conversation or from within the safety of a shouting crowd.

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

Women need to attack those negative voices they have in their head.

People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and sometimes they're called fiction writers. I always feel lucky that I live in a culture where fiction writing is legal and not seen as pathology.

When I'm feeling down on myself or not feeling good about who I am, or maybe something happened and I'm feeling depressed, I eat to fill that void. Afterwards I'll beat myself up about it. I regret doing it, but I'll turn around and do it again.

I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.

When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.

People think if you look after yourself you're being selfish, you know.

My sense of humor has saved me more than a couple of times in my life.

But I think Prozac is a lethal drug, I've several friends just haven't made it by taking Prozac.

I have severe OCD and I like fun too much.

I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety.

I had social anxiety to the max. I was scared of my own shadow! But as I grew, I got more comfortable with myself.

There's a tremendous sense of shame that people who are lonely feel. I say that as someone who felt ashamed of being lonely as a child and even at points during adulthood.