Quotes About Mental health

Emotional flexibility reflects the capacity to move freely and appropriately along a wide spectrum of emotions rather than responding rigidly or defensively. Emotional resilience is the ability to bounce back from experiences of disappointment, frustration and even loss.

Overwork is this decade's cocaine, the problem without a name," says Bryan Robinson, who has written widely about the phenomenon and estimates that as many as 25 percent of Americans have the addiction.

We survive on too little sleep, wolf down fast foods on the run, fuel up with coffee and cool down with alcohol and sleeping pills. Faced with relentless demands at work, we become short-tempered and easily distracted. We return home from long days at work feeling exhausted and often experience our families not as a source of joy and renewal, but as one more demand in an already overburdened life.

As will be demonstrated later, the true cause of the recent rise in mass shootings is not weapons but the increase in psychiatric drugs being prescribed for youngsters. The

Then secretary of veteran affairs Eric Shinseki reported in November 2009 that "more veterans have committed suicide since 2001 than we have lost on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan." In

Why do people want to be so skinny? What do they think will happen when they reach their size-zero goal? What happens at zero? Zero means there's nothing left. Why does she want to disappear?

Her grandson Robert Seton bears out her stark intention, 'She occasionally had her fits of melancholy and one in particular, when about eighteen she so far forgot herself at a time of unusual despondency as to entertain the wicked purpose of self-destruction.

Somehow this disorder hooks into all kinds of fears and insecurities in many clinicians.

It seems both outrageous and irresponsible that so few mental health clinicians connect the epidemics of mental distress in industrial societies with the devastating impact of our suicidal destruction of our own habitat and ecocidal elimination of whole species. — Linda Buzzel and Craig Chalquist

If I was married with ten kids, I wouldn't be talking on the phone with you. I'd be shooting myself in the fucking head.

Sometimes you have to fight what won't yield and put yourself where it's safe to be crazy.

She was, after all, at home on D ward, more than she had ever been anywhere, and for the first time as a recognizable and defined thing—one of the nuts. She would have a banner under which to stand.

Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.

You know... the thing that is so wrong about being mentally ill is the terrible price you have to pay for survival.

And what does that signify to you?" he said, perhaps forgetting that if she could speak truly to the world, she would not be a mental patient.

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

You're depressed, not crazy. It's not insane to be depressed in this world. It's more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what's going on. Those are the ones with a screw loose, if you ask me.

I'm either becoming Zen or more depressed, he thinks.

You're depressed, not crazy. It's not insane to be depressed in this world. It's more sane than being happy.

She meant depressions, for da had had them: big, massive, scudding, whopping, black-cloud, infectious, crow, raven, jackdaw, coffin-upon-coffin, catacomb-upon-catacomb, skeletons-upon-skulls-upon-bones crawling along the ground to the grave type of depressions.

Self-abuse is shockingly common, especially among people who have been conditioned to believe that they are to blame when things go wrong.

Depression is such a crippling, debilitating illness.

I may not be using the straightest ruler when it comes to measuring crazy. - Vicki DeVine