Quotes About Mental health

Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.

Depression is a big fucked-up monster. Everyone gets a turn, whether or not they want to own up to it. It's a hard fight that fucks you top to bottom. Drains you hollow. And when you're finally rid of it, there's something about having overcome it that robs you of compassion.

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

A wave of bipolar disorders and addiction to video games and gambling has also taken a toll on families.

I just took the box and nodded, because that's how you treat crazy people. You nod and count down twenty-seven days for crazy to come to an end.

Pain represents 10 percent of the problem, while suffering, which is not wanting to feel the pain, represents 90 percent of the problem.

One night you delete all your suicide notes from your computer. If things go bad again, it's not like you can't write a new one.

It's not that I feel alone because I have no friends because I have lots of friends. I know that I have people who can hold me and reassure me and talk to ne and care for me and think of me but they can't be inside my head with me all the time - for all time.

Food compulsion isn't a character disorder it's a chemical disorder.

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

That which Pythagoras said to his scholars of old, may be forever applied to melancholy men, A fabis abstinete, eat no beans.

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

feeling angry and sorry for ourselves, or we opt for distractions and quick ways to dull the pain. This becomes a habit we cannot shake, and we tend to feel the generalized anxiety and emptiness that come from all this avoidance.

It's a pain that we don't discuss or even understand.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

The line between accident and suicide isn't always clearly defined. You could kill yourself without really making up your mind.

Sometimes you had to laugh if only to keep from crying.

I never heard of forkroot, but walking seems to help the effects pass. You can walk most things off.

Sentirse triste no es ser débil. Es un hecho de la vida, no es algo que pueda controlarse.

I make some jokes about it, but they're not funny and just add to the depression.

Irrational optimism can be great; it's why only about 15 percent instead of 99 percent of humans get clinically depressed.

Cognitive therapists, like Aaron Beck of the University of Pennsylvania, even consider depression to be primarily a disorder of thought, rather than emotion, in that sufferers tend to see the world in a distorted, negative way.

As Beck and other cognitive therapists have emphasized, much of what constitutes a depression is centered around responding to one awful thing and overgeneralizing from it—cognitively distorting how the world works.