Quotes About Mental health

Worrying about things beyond your control is a pretty good formula for illness. And most of the things we so concern ourselves with about never actually happen.

difficult feelings that you don't find a healthy way to remove become repressed, which creates stress, poor productivity and even disease.

John, I'll be blunt. You truly cannot afford the luxury of even one negative thought.

Look at the toxic waste that most people put into the fertile garden of their minds every single day: the worries and anxieties, the fretting about the past, the brooding over the future and those self-created fears that wreak havoc within your inner world. Worry drains the mind of much of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul.

Apparently he was on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

THIS MEANS THE LAST REASON TO HAVE PSYCHIATRY AROUND IS GONE

Forty thousand suicides every year in America. One every thirteen minutes. Statistically we're more likely to kill ourselves than each other.

Forty thousand suicides every year in America. One every thirteen minutes. Statistically we're more likely to kill ourselves than each other. Who knew?

Westwood said, "They call it anhedonia. The inability to experience pleasure.

It takes a lot of energy just to deal with life when you are neurotic and obsessive-compulsive.

It is a funny thing but you can actually see improved mental health in the eyes

In fact, studies show that the people with the most accurate self-perceptions tend to be moderately depressed, suffer from low self-esteem, or both. An overly positive self-evaluation, on the other hand, is considered normal and healthy.

In his essay for Wired, Thompson writes that "we're learning to live in front of a crowd." That's precisely the problem. The strain of living in front of a crowd, 24/7, 365 days a year, is what causes real celebrities to fall apart. Remember Britney Spears shaving her head and attacking that car with an umbrella? Spears was 25 years old at the time. She wasn't a teenager. She was (or was supposed to be) a mature adult. She was the mother of two young children.

And never, never, dear madam, put 'Wednesday' simply as the date! That way madness lies!

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So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs.

Imagine living each day and not being able to trust your own mind. Imagine having it lie to you, trick you, tell you you're worthless or that the world would be better off without you in it. It would be like… like always hearing an awful radio playing inside your head, one that you can't seem to turn off.

You know what works? Denial. As a coping tool, denial is severely underrated.

Why, in fact, is the word pain rarely used when describing depression? The dictionary uses synonyms such as melancholy, despondency, and sadness.

Depression is boring, I think, and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave. —ANNE SEXTON, "THE FURY OF RAIN STORMS

People with a history of depression often appear happiest right before they commit suicide. Not because their depression has passed, but because they've finally chosen a course of action.

We're about to be overrun by an entire generation of juvenile psychopaths.

The truth is, genius and depression have always gone hand in hand. Which was why I spent so many afternoons, sitting at the piano, playing and playing, because my father said my music soothed his spirit and allowed him to rest in a way a truly great mind could never completely be at ease.