Quotes About Mental health

there were occasions on which talking about distressing things merely kept those things alive, whereas not talking about them, consigning them to the past, forgetting them, allowed one to think about things that were positive, things that made the world a bit better.

Weakened minds see everything through a black veil; the soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of your future appears stormy and unpromising.

Interestingly, recurrent humiliation by a parent caused a slightly more detrimental impact and was marginally correlated to a greater likelihood of adult illness and depression. Simply living with a parent who puts you down and humiliates you, or who is alcoholic or depressed, can leave you with a profoundly hurtful ACE footprint and alter your brain and immunologic functioning for life.

a person with an ACE Score of 4 or more is, statistically, 1,220 percent more likely to attempt suicide than someone with an ACE Score of 0.

You got to be in mighty bad shape in the head to eat greens and Jell-o.

We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion of the artist suffering for his or her work, we think these writers achieved brilliance in spite of their suffering, not because of it.

No, if you talk to God you're religious. If God talks to you, you're psychotic.

You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic.

knowing who you were and where you belonged was one component of good mental health.

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

the opportunity to meet our internalized abuser. We all have one: it's not if you discover your precious inner bully, it's when.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Any act of violence results from the convergence of many risk factors that may include access to weapons, home environment, peer influences, mental health issues, substance use, and social isolation, among many others. Violent media, including music, may be one of those risk factors but is neither sufficient nor necessary for people to commit acts of violence

There is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

schizophrenia and had developed a split personality

The running joke is that the lack of sex makes people more intense, winds them up, messes with their heads. But it's not a joke. It's a critical need, and in my view, something whose contribution to the human condition and mental health can't be minimized.

Bobbie Fischer was considered the greatest chess player who ever lived, and he ended up losing complete touch with reality. John Nash, a brilliant mathematician who developed game theory, was debilitated by paranoid schizophrenia. There are

Smile, it's free therapy.

Another curious thing about the slow progression out of depression: you begin to crave routine.

What if – Sarah asked her daughter – after choosing to transition she then felt the need to de-transition? What if having made this change she decided she didn't want it? Her daughter's response was, 'So. I'll kill myself.' While no parent should ever take such a threat lightly there does seem to be a pattern to it, as Germaine Greer had claimed much earlier.

Generous people are rarely mentally ill.