Quotes About Mental health

In order to really give mental health the focus and attention it deserves, we need to bring together and integrate all the services that provide women with the care they need. This includes the mental and physical health services, as well as social care.

We must not think too much: people go mad if they think too much.

As Miguel Farias and Catherine Wikholm indicate in their book, The Buddah Pill, mindfulness often deepens feelings of depression and anxiety, as well as creates some sense of dissociation and detachment from reality as a consequence of excessive self-centredness.

In my civilian world at home in Los Angeles, half the people I know are on antidepressants or anti–panic attack drugs because they can't handle the stress of a mean boss or a crowd at the 7-Eleven when buying a Slurpee.

Going to take a room at the Commodore, get into a hot bath and open a vein.

Oh no, honey. Lots of women go through it early. Why, there was this woman over in Georgia who was only thirty-six-years-old and one day she got in her car and drove right up the stairs to the county courthouse, rolled down her window, and tossed her mother's head that she had just chopped off in her kitchen at a State policeman and hollered, Here! This is what you wanted, and drove right back down the courthouse stairs. Now that's what an early menopause will do for you if you're not careful.

Should we reason our way out of sadness ? But why, when reasoning requires effort ? And the sad man lacks the necessary energy to make any effort at all.

Looking back I didn't even know I was depressed, I was just so used to feeling that way and thought that was what life was. I tried telling my family and friends but they just blow you off and say: 'Yeh right.' They don't know what it is, so they just don't want to be around that.

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

I used to use Facetune to get rid of blemishes, and slimming apps because I was scared of being called fat, but no more.

I avoid social media and articles with negative comments about myself, because the first few times that I got called 'fat' broke my heart; it absolutely destroyed me. It's awful when someone says something like that to you.

At my worst, I was so fearful of death I'd think about it for six hours a day.

Every experience feeds an actor, and I've learned that depression is all around us.

I'm all for making ourselves look good - as long as we feel good, too. Feeling under pressure to look the same means we've gone too far.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Being in a Covid bubble, you are going to need your family with you. It helps you stay sane. Four or five days in, you start to get a little bit of cabin fever. You need your family to take some of that pressure off you.

The Lighthouse' isn't scary. A few people have said it is, but I don't think it is.

Madness doesn't happen to someone alone. Very few people have experiences that are theirs alone.

My dad died, and he wasn't in my life because he had schizophrenia, so it's been something that my entire family has been fighting against since I can remember.

I know film industry is not a very healthy place to be in.

Most of my world is in London, and I feel like this is where I went mad and ended up finding myself.

In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.

You can put Trump in the White House, but you need to prepare for a revolt because I'm going nuts.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.