Quotes About Mental health

Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

Worrying is a necessary part of life.

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.

Anti-depressan ts Controlling tools of your system Making life more tolerable Making life more tolerable

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.

No one is more dangerously insane than one who is sane all the time: he is like a steel bridge without flexibility, and the order of his life is rigid and brittle.

Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can be for the rest of his or her life.

My psychiatrist once said to me, 'Maybe life isn't for everyone'.

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Oh yeah, I'm mentally screwed up for life. But I look good.

I usually don't get too bogged down with my personal problems because that's a one-way street if you get yourself into a negative frame of mind and only see the dark side of life.

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life.

If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that can save you.

The thing I don't say is: I want to stay alive. The reason I don't say it is because, given that fat folder in front of him, he'd never believe it. And here's something else he'd never believe—I'm fighting to be here in this shitty, messed-up world. Standing on the ledge of the bell tower isn't about dying. It's about having control. It's about never going to sleep again.

And maybe Finch didn't feel like he had a choice, or maybe he wasn't trying to kill himself at all but just going in search of the bottom. But I'll never really know, will I? Then

Often, mental and emotional illnesses go undiagnosed because the person suffering symptoms is too ashamed to speak up, or because their loved ones either fail to or choose not to recognize the signs.

I want to get away from the stigma they all clearly feel just because they have an illness of the mind as opposed to, say, an illness of the lungs or blood. I want to get away from all the labels. "I'm OCD," "I'm depressed," "I'm a cutter," they say, like these are the things that define them.

I shut down again. I went blank. One minute I was spinning, and the next minute my mind was dragging itself around in a circle, like an old arthritic dog trying to lie down. And then I just turned off and went to sleep, but not sleep in the way you do every night. Think a long, dark sleep where you don't dream at all.

She is collecting all the unhappy, mad, bad, unpleasant words and keeping them for herself. "Why are we doing this, Dec?" Because they shouldn't be in there mixed with the good. They like to trick you.