Quotes About Mental health

Up and down' is Irish for anything at all--from crying into the dishes to full-blown psychosis. Though, now that I think about, a psychotic is more usually 'not quite herself'.

After three more years, she was released from the asylum, rattling with pills – a much reduced, soon to be terminally ill woman who was invisible, on the street, to those who passed her by.

I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.

Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.

madness is not hysteria. It can be very quiet…

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

Sleep without pills? impossible. take pills! death? have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

Je m'inquiète : comment savoir si on a attrapé un désespoir, puisqu'on ne peut même pas le voir ?

To this day, I have a very unhealthy relationship with food. I have an eating disorder; not in that I am anorexic or bulimic—I'm not—but in the sense that I feel extremely guilty every time I eat anything that isn't water. Of course I have body issues.

Negative thoughts "get stuck in your head and refuse to go, and the more you believe in them the more deeply lodged they become," says Tolle, who describes people with low self-esteem as being "stuck with hostile, life-denying, continuously critical and attacking entities that they carry in their heads and they believe . . . and they are constantly attacking themselves, or if they are not attacking themselves, they attack others around them.

They say isolation drives you crazy. Sure it does-when you can't get enough of it.

There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.

It honestly affects my mental health, social media, on a really profound level. Because I'm constantly being bombarded with an image of femininity that I feel I have to adhere to. And I think there's a lot of pressure in this industry, as well, being constantly discriminated on your aesthetic appearance.

I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.

I highlight the importance of self-care and the need to be there for people. I participate in various shows and panels and also use my music to promote mental health. This is a subject close to my heart and I often discuss it on my social media platforms.

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.

I don't think actors are any more prone to depression than anyone else.

When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I'll probably have to be on it the rest of my life.

News-free existence is not a serious proposal, but it is worth noting that while today's 24/7 media environment is wonderful in many ways, it can also be like drinking out of a fire hose and intensify a downward reinforcing cycle of despair.

As Britain prepares to leave the E.U., we need to become more efficient as an economy. We need everyone contributing to our collective prosperity, in every part of the country. We simply cannot afford to waste the potential of a generation because of mental ill-health.