Quotes About Mental health

maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder. I

Psychiatric diagnoses are getting closer and closer to the boundary of normal," said Allen Frances.

Bryna is convinced her children are bipolar, and I wasn't going to swoop into a stranger's home for an afternoon and tell them all they were normal.

the madness business is filled with people like Tony, reduced to their maddest edges.

madness that didn't involve mania or depression or psychosis. He called it 'manie sans delire' – insanity without delusions.

the world that psychiatrists are wicked and must be stopped.

All violence {is} a person's attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

On the outside, Tony said, not wanting to spend time with your criminally insane neighbors would be a perfectly understandable position. But on the inside it demonstrates you're withdrawn and aloof and you have a grandiose sense of your own importance.

Once labeled schizophrenic the pseudopatient was stuck with that label. —DAVID ROSENHAN

A lot of people don't realize depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

And this of course, was the simplest definition of depression that he knew of: strongly disliking yourself.

My father had always been supremely suspicious of psychiatry. He viewed therapy as an invasion of privacy, mental health as a matter of self-discipline , and my mother's increasingly pointed suggestions that he talk to someone as acts of aggression - little lobbed grenades of blame for their unhappiness as a couple.

our culture attaches too much importance to feelings, he says it's out of control, it's not computers that are making everything virtual, it's mental health. Everyone's trying to correct their thoughts and improve their feelings and work on their relationships and parenting skills instead of just getting married and raising children like they used to

What's it do?" she said. "Absolutely nothing," Hibbard replied, "if you are in perfect mental health. However, let's face it, who is?

one benefit of being a depressive pessimist, which is the propensity to laugh in dark times.

a comprehensive system of mental-health services, including support for parents with sick adult children who refuse treatment, doesn't exist

The difference between conceding and accepting is depression.

I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Trebuie sa marturisesc ca am capatat depresie atunci si inca mai am.

I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

What a returning soldier needs most when leaving war is not a mental health professional but a living community to whom his experience matters. There is usually such a community close at hand: his or her surviving comrades. Men and women returning from combat should debrief as units, not as isolated individuals. Unit rotation [in my understanding, the lack of it] is the most important measure for secondary prevention of combat PTSD.

Combat trauma destroys the capacity for social trust, accounting for the paranoid state of being that blights the lives of most severely traumatized combat veterans.

The paranoic is logical. Indeed, he is strikingly meticulously logical.