Quotes About Mental health

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

It's healthy to admit you're not ok. 'It's ok not to be ok' it's brave. But don't let it win. Be sad. Have your moment, your day or week. Then do something about it and be happy. For yourself.

People who have not experienced a suicidal urge miss a crucial point. It is not that one wants to end one's life, but that the only way to end the pain - that eternal fight against one's melodrama so that it does not transgress - is to wipe out the body. I distrust judgments - Mann's or anyone's - on suicide. They are, in the end, judgments on feelings.

How could you have thought of suicide when you have people you love? How could you have forgotten those who love you? These questions were asked, again and again. But love is the wrong thing to question. One does not will oneself to love; one does not kill oneself because one ceases to love. The difficulty is that love erases: the more faded one becomes, the more easily one loves.

O SANITY It's only sane to be insane Psychotic builds a castle And neurotic lives in it I don't know what to do with my sanity When the world's at the verge of calamity O' sanity, o' sanity What am I to do with you Drink up, shoot up, anything you please But you're always standing behind me Like a devil in hell O' sanity, sanity Why don't you let me go? Let go, let go! Cut it out!

Bueno, todos los pacientes son, en cierto modo, unos mentirosos. Vienen a mi consulta porque sus mentiras les hacen sufrir. El paciente que domina el arte de la mentira acaba siendo víctima de una enfermedad más grave. Pero piensa que aquel que paga puntualmente sus honorarios no nos engaña.

Comprendo que en América Latina la psicoterapia se haya convertido en algo similar a eso, porque se trata de una moda estúpida que no intenta más que uniformar a la humanidad, rica y variada; una moda que instruye a los seres mediocres deseosos de llevar una a una a las ovejas descarriadas al redil del conformismo.

Every day millions of people decide to grant their smartphone a bit more control over their lives or try a new and more effective antidepressant drug. In pursuit of health, happiness and power, humans will gradually change first one of their features and then another, and another, until they will no longer be human.

it is far from clear that billions of people would be able to repeatedly reinvent themselves without losing their mental balance.

we can make people far happier than ever before, without any need of revolutions. Prozac, for example, does not change regimes, but by raising serotonin levels it lifts people out of their depression.

Cómo pudieron los expertos no apreciar que los niños tienen necesidades emocionales, y que su salud mental y física depende de cubrir estas necesidades tanto como las de alimento, refugio y medicinas?

I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.

I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.

Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.

Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts brackets about each day. If you do something foolish or painful today, you get irritated if somebody mentions it, today. If it happened yesterday, though, you can nod or chuckle, as the case may be. You've crossed through nothingness or dream to another island in Time.

We all need a daily checkup from the neck up to avoid stinkin' thinkin' which ultimately leads to hardening of the attitudes.

I cannot do this anymore. I cannot pull myself together again and spend the next fifteen hours of wakefulness fending off the fact of my own misery.

Instead of eating too much, I'm thinking too much and I need to throw up some of these thoughts before something vile happens.

DID is about survival! As more people begin to appreciate this concept, individuals with DID will start to feel less as though they have to hide in shame. DID develops as a response to extreme trauma that occurs at an early age and usually over an extended period of time.