Quotes About Mental health

The thing with depression is you don't realise you have it and even when you do you don't want to realise you have it.

Yes, this a disease, and men suffering with depression need help. It takes the right person to break through to someone who has been brave enough to reach out.

We all go through moments of depression. It's part of being a human. Sometimes it's not circumstantial, what makes you feel that way, it's a chemical thing. You can get some help.

For most players it's hard to accept you've ended your football career and that you have to go out and do something else. But the way it happened to me, so suddenly... I went into depression and had to deal with that, being depressed, something that had never happened to me in my life before.

I knew I didn't have post-natal depression because it wasn't all day, every day. But I felt very low. As a woman you think you should still be making dinner and looking nice. You think, 'I can do a million and one things.' But you can't.

Baking helps lift my depression. It can't cure it but it helps.

Artists have nothing to do with the deranged, vaguely connected actions of a few celebrated nutcases.

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

I'm not someone who feels that unless I am anxious or depressed, there will be no creative drive. My greatest desire in the world is that my desperation goes away, and I can be happy.

Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.

Mania is the most destructive of the forces. Everybody around you will tell you you're in trouble, and you can't hear what they are saying.

I've never said I have OCD, as I haven't been diagnosed.

I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety several years ago, so it's something I've been battling most of my life.

I was diagnosed as bipolar.

I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.

Having a task to focus solely on makes me forget about anything I'm worried or anxious about.

When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?

Cycling taught me to recognize that mental health is on a sliding scale. Some days you are up and some days you are down.

I taught myself German and psychology. Learning about psychology really helped me understand myself and the others around me and it helped keep me sane.

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

There was a mental institution near my house, and I would donate time teaching mentally ill patients how to do ceramics. I photographed them as well. So those were my first pictures.

We need to educate our elite coaches more and have a better approach to teaching the athletes about how to be healthy rather than berate them, humiliate them, use tactics that could scar them for life.

I had nightmares after being with the national team. You shouldn't have things like that.

This, I realized, was what real depression felt like. What madness felt like.