Quotes About Mental health

Je n'ai pas eu le courage de me suicider. J'ai eu le courage de ne pas me suicider.

If you live a long life and get to the end of it without ever once having felt crushingly depressed, then you probably haven't been paying attention.

"Worry" is a word that I don't allow myself to use.

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently.

Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

I could only tolerate an afternoon if I took a triple amount of the stated dose of valium prescribed by my GP (who would soon take his own life).

Don't piss your life away with suicide...it's a bullshit way out.

One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

This life is slow suicide, unless you read.

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

I think drugs and alcohol aren't a wrestling problem, it's a life problem, it's a people problem.

Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.

It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life.

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Therapy is expensive, and often the best facilities and practitioners are not covered by insurance, and so mental health becomes a luxury.

Suicide was a crime. It was "alienating oneself from the people," according to what Chairman Mao said. So

I believe depression is legitimate. But I also believe that if you don't exercise, eat nutritious food, get sunlight, get enough sleep, consume positive material, surround yourself with support, then you aren't giving yourself a fighting chance.

He was about to find out that when you open a door with a psychiatrist's name on it, you'd better be prepared to witness exactly how fucked up your life has become.

She shuffled with her head bowed, her dark eyes drifting to avoid contact, and she screamed in bed at night. (Dark City Lights)