Quotes About Mental health

When people lay around whining to their therapists and ex-wives that they're finally going to 'change' themselves, they are promising something imaginary and made up.

If I'm on form and I'm not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whip out something good. That's why I've done quite a few overdubs for Tina Turner and things like that, because even before she made this comeback I said yes to her, just because I love Tina Turner.

A breakdown involves getting to the point at which your mental state prevents you from doing the normal things of your everyday life. I remember from my own experience that I was completely ambushed by mine.

Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the asylum for the insane at Stockton, Cal. My boy was buried there.

Do you know what prepares you for the mental hospital? Being a prime minister's wife.

I've read everything printed in English that Freud has written. It helped me a great deal.

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

We will not give up the fight to ensure that mental health is the given the priority it needs and deserves.

It's absolutely crucial that we look at mental health not just through the prism of health but in a cross-cutting way.

I think it is a luxury and privilege to be sane and well and pessimistic. Because with depression, you have no other option. You don't want that pessimism, because it is crushing you and keeping you down at the bottom of the well.

It's a very proactive thing to be dealing with your darkness and getting it out of your system. So it doesn't have to be in your system.

My body image as I grew up was very difficult... I was so conscious of being fat. But one thing I was aware of as being problematic for 12, 14 years was overeating and then purging.

Your girl gets a lot of anxiety. It's OK. It's a learning process.

What do we mean by 'crazy?' What do we mean by 'mad?' At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?

Many of us feel as though we are overloaded and overwhelmed by all the things that are happening, and we can't stop work for even five minutes or we'll fall behind: the idea that if we don't take breaks, we're being more productive.

For years, I wasn't feeling good about myself. My head wasn't clear. I was doing nothing productive.

In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

I think I'm well on the way of overcoming a very big hurdle that's been in my way for several years. Which is trying to find a way to not let the insecurity of my profession get the better of me and make me crazy. I'm trying to find a way to maintain my own personal balance in the midst of everything.

I don't care who you are, but you turn into a different person when you don't sleep.

Anybody who's dealt with addiction and depression knows that sometimes they can make you forget who you are and kind of bring out a different person, somebody you don't know as well.

Everyone has their own battles, people feel bad all the time for different reasons. For me it was feeling depressed, anxious and out of place. But I wanted to give people something that could sit with them on their own personal level.

I ate cucumbers and saltines - not because I wanted to look a certain way, but because I was so sad my appetite disappeared.

Even if I have to work, scheduling breaks where I disconnect from technology can be beneficial.