Quotes About Mental health

in the San Francisco Bay Area, where one out of every three people seem to be a therapist of some sort. What does this say about us? Scott Peck said that the sickest and healthiest people are in therapy. Which are we?

To psychologically kill something, you must integrate it. To psychologically empower something, you need only avoid it, deny it, repress it, project it, and so on.

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.

It was impossible to sleep. Anxiety stopped me from falling asleep; depression woke me up.

That's why we need to pay attention when an adolescent spends hours playing violent video games while his window of opportunity to develop healthy relationships is open wide.

The main neurotransmitters that are active in the adolescent brain are norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin.

exercise during adolescence reduces depression, anxiety, and other emotional distress.

Antidepressants. The thought of this girl actually being depressed made me want to grab the whole planet and throw it into the sun. Well, more than usual anyway.

It's nothing to be ashamed of—often the greatest difficulty faced by people suffering from mental illness is society's inexcusable ignorance of the subject.

Inappropriate laughter is the universal first sign of madness.

I fully recognize that all of those are things only a mentally ill person believes. Therefore, I do not believe them." Boom. Therapy accomplished.

Sorry, Dave. My grandpa used to tell me, toward the end when he was going crazy, that talking through a dog ain't like talking through a sausage. Molly is in here with me and I gotta compete with the barker.

I'm not crazy," I said, crazily, to my court-appointed therapist.

there were days I wrote get out of bed in my planner just to be able to feel like I'd accomplished something.

Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.

Who's crazier, anyway: people who struggle honestly, or the people who act like they never do?

The first rule of marital success: Don't marry crazy and don't be crazy.

Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go.

Insanity can inhibit a person from thinking consciously about his or her thoughts and actions that can result him or her to perform dangerous acts without realizing at all.

Fear is like a disease that can be fatal if not treated on time.

Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.

Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

You know what's just as powerful as a good cup of coffee in the morning? Starting your day with some good, loving thoughts. It can change how your whole day unfolds.

Anxiety swarms in the heart like worms infect the whole body.