Quotes About Mental health

Suicide - when I think of it, to me it means someone had a lot of problems and they couldn't fight through them anymore. That's not cowardly. It's sad and nothing but.

Often times we call a man [or woman] cold when he [or she] is only sad.

It's hard to pretend you're OK. Especially when you're all by urself, alone. :'(

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

The mentally disturbed do not employ the Principle of Scientific Parsimony: the most simple theory to explain a given set of facts. They shoot for the baroque.

If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.

I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.

While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane.

By far the most significant consequence of "selfish capitalism" (Thatch/Blatcherism) has been a startling increase in the incidence of mental illness in both children and adults since the 1970s.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists

A smile across the aisle of a bus in the morning could save a suicide later in the day.

You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.

A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist.

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.

Psychiatry is probably the single most destructive force that has affected American Society within the last fifty years.

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.

Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?

Girl, interrupted.

Most women are frequently labelled "insane" for expressing their misery and failing to act positive. It is form of misogynistic abuse that is also about pushing women towards the doctor's room, the therapists couch, and the chemist.

Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh, I should die.

Halte dir jeden Tag dreißig Minuten für deine Sorgen frei und mache in dieser Zeit ein Nickerchen.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.