Quotes About Mental health

The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.

Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha)

Intelligence will be used in the service of the neurosis.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

Cuidado, creo que se me está empezando a aflojar algún tornillo. Eso es lo malo que tiene la soledad, que ves el mundo al revés y acabas perdiendo tornillos y volviéndote loco.

If Freudianism is true, the most immoral people, or at best the most amoral people, should be the healthiest, whereas in fact the opposite is true. People in mental institutions and people who come to counseling invariably are people with great moral difficulties.

To me, the experience of having had manic depression can never be separated from my sense of who I am. It runs through me like wine through water: everything is coloured (or tainted) by it.

The very fact that you can even wonder if you're going crazy means you very likely aren't crazy. Real nuts don't question their own nuttiness. They think they're the only normal ones. That's why they're nuts.

I get so scared, I can't stop it. It's like black waves, and I'm a little cork. I bob to the surface and think I'll do okay, and then another wave comes and I'm drowning again." I

her final words seem to ripple outward like waves of water from a thrown stone—don't remember don't remember don't remember don'trememberdon't "Remember?

All in all, in-person social interaction is much better for mental health than electronic communication.

Another study of adults found the same thing: the more people used Facebook, the lower their mental health and life satisfaction at the next assessment.

iGen is on the verge of the most severe mental health crisis for young people in decades. On the surface, though, everything is fine.

If an activity involves a screen, it's linked to less happiness and more depression. If it doesn't—particularly if it involves in-person social interaction or exercise—it's linked to more happiness and less depression.

More young people are experiencing not just symptoms of depression, and not just feelings of anxiety, but clinically diagnosable major depression...

Another argument is that social media and texting are just teens interacting with one another just as they always have. Perhaps, but electronic communication is linked to poor mental health, whereas interacting in person is linked to good mental health. The two types of interaction are not the same.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

Lots of people go back to other hospitals but not to Bloomingdale. It cured me. It made me feel if I was ever to commit suicide again, it had to be done. No more attempts. No more games.

Sartre, je le jugeai plus tard sinon tout à fait gagné par la folie des mots, du moins, dans la lutte exténuante qu'il a toujours menée contre elle, enclin, corydrane aidant, à y céder.

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

Depression isn't a thing that lifts or disappears just because of a change of scenery. The voice follows you no matter where you go, reminding you that you are worthless.

The key to coping with questionable emotions is knowing that we are in control of them, and not the other way around.