Quotes About Mental health

I'm accustomed to being top man. I been a bull goose catskinner for every gyppo logging operation in the Northwest and bull goose gambler all the way from Korea, was even bull goose pea weeder on that pea farm at Pendleton -- so I figure if I'm bound to be a loony, then I'm bound to be a stompdown dadgum good one.

But the new guy is different, and the Acutes can see it, different from anybody been coming on this ward for the past ten years, different from anybody they ever met outside. He's just as vulnerable, maybe, but the Combine didn't get him.

He's safe as long as he can laugh, he thinks, and it works pretty fair.

They're out there...One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Mr. McMurphy... my friend... I'm not a chicken, I'm a rabbit. The doctor is a rabbit. Cheswick there is a rabbit. Billy Bibbit is a rabbit. All of us in here are rabbits of varying ages and degrees, hippity-hopping through our Walt Disney world. Oh, don't misunderstand me, we're not in here because we are rabbits?we'd be rabbits wherever we were?we're all in here because we can't adjust to our rabbithood. We need a good strong wolf like the nurse to teach us our place.

he commences to laugh. Nobody can tell exactly why he laughs; there's nothing funny going on. But it's not the way that Public Relation laughs, it's free and loud and it comes out of his wide grinning mouth and spreads in rings bigger and bigger till it's lapping against the walls all over the ward. Not like that fat Public Relation laugh. This sounds real. I realize all of a sudden it's the first laugh I've heard in years.

We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind.

Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there's a painful side;

Soha meg nem fordultak a fejemben a lelki betegség hatalmi vonatkozásai. Gondold csak meg: minél Å'rültebb az ember, annál nagyobb lehet a hatalma. Vedd Hitlert. Tébolyban az erÅ'.

I didn't say it didn't make sense, Chief – I just said it was talking crazy.

that fool Public Relations man who's always clapping his wet hands together and saying how overjoyed he is that mental hospitals have eliminated all the old-fashioned cruelty

one flew east, one flew west, One flew over the cuckoo's nest. —Children's folk rhyme

I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking.

Taking care of your thoughts is at least as important as taking care of your body - if not even more important.

It's just as important to be around people that influence stable mental health as it is working towards it.

How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?

The fastest way to get lost is to go on a guilt trip!

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia?

Probably saying a 30-second prayer at a key moment has done more good than any psychotherapy or drugs I've prescribed.

Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

A prayer/meditation a day, keeps the Doctor away.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.

This century hasn't got the lock on insanity.