Quotes About Mental health

The whole nation thinks I should be winning, winning, winning all the time and that's a lot to take on my shoulders.

While anti-depressants can work for some people, I became a little too reliant on them - if you forget to take one, you feel awful.

On my bad days, sitting down and meditating was the last thing I wanted to do.

I only ever baked because it helped with my anxiety.

I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.

I have anxiety and self-doubt all the time, it's a battle.

I had a very public battle with anorexia.

I think it's important to be happy before you can make anybody else happy.

Avoiding fear, sadness, or anger is not the same thing as being happy.

Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.

There is much to be said for the conscious expression of anger, and it is well known medically and psychologically that suppressing anger in the sense of internalizing it is unhealthy

Anything that gets you out, that gets you physically active, is going to be good psychotherapy and stave off winter problems.

When I asked Robert Spitzer about the possibility that he'd inadvertently created a world in which ordinary behaviours were being labelled mental disorders, he fell silent. I waited for him to answer. But the silence lasted three minutes. Finally he said, 'I don't know.

Practically every prime-time program is populated by people who are just the right sort of mad, and I now knew what the formula was. The right sort of mad are people who are a bit madder than we fear we're becoming, and in a recognizable way. We might be anxious but we aren't as anxious as they are. We might be paranoid but we aren't as paranoid as they are. We are entertained by them, and comforted that we're not as mad as they are.

I am the neurological opposite of a psychopath, in that I feel anxious almost all the time. It must be great to not constantly feel like you've got someone living inside your face, shooting you with a mini Taser.

I closed the manual. "I wonder if I've got any of the 374 mental disorders," I thought. I opened the manual again. And I instantly diagnosed myself with twelve different ones.

Shame internalized can lead to agony.

I suspect it was probably unusual to suffer from both Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Malingering, unproductiveness tending to make me feel anxious, but there it was. I had both.

I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a trained professional. Or maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder.

Maybe it was the trying so hard to be normal that was making everyone so afraid they were going crazy.

There are obviously a lot of very ill people out there. But there are also people in the middle, getting overlabeled, becoming nothing more than a big splurge of madness in the minds of the people who benefit from it.     Bob

There are obviously a lot of very ill people out there. But there are also people in the middle, getting overlabeled, becoming nothing more than a big splurge of madness in the minds of the people who benefit from it.

But they're being labeled bipolar. That's an enormous label that's going to stay with you for the rest of your life.

He fulfilled the bipolar checklist. See? And so they gave him some pretty heavy-duty medication. It slowed him way down, to a drooling fat kid. And they declared the meds a success." It