Quotes About Mental health

Over and over I had to reassure her. "You hate me," she would say. "Lori, I don't hate you. I love you." Finally it began to dawn on me. When she challenged me like that, she wasn't making a statement. She was asking a question. And she needed to hear the answer. She needed to hear that I still accepted her. She needed to hear that I still cared for her. Over and over again she needed to hear me tell her that I loved her.

I felt hopeless. I was never going to get better. All I was doing was spending time that was really wasted since I was ultimately going to get done what had to be done. Put your finger in a bucket of water and pull it out. The hole left is how much I'd be missed. Killing myself was my job, my responsibility.

If you're suicidal, and you don't actually kill yourself, you become known as 'wry.

Toni hears voices, said Trapp. But who is this Dr. Ellsworth to tell her she's a schizophrenic? Maybe she just perceives better than the rest of us. Maybe the voices she hears are just uncommunicated ideas, floating free.

suicide kills many more than the individual involved – that's why people only do it if their pain is so terrible it blinds them to the pain they are inflicting on the people they love.

I think about seventy percent of my depression was my seventeenth-century warrior trying to get out.

Junior was making progress after his breakdown but was still weak;

como ha dejado claro Virginia Woolf, cuando sufres un trastorno mental, lo primero que te es arrebatado es la palabra. Y con esto llegamos al núcleo abrasador de lo que llamamos locura. Estar loco es, sobre todo, estar solo. Pero estoy hablando de una soledad descomunal, de algo que no se parece en absoluto a lo que entendemos cuando decimos la palabra soledad.

porque en realidad lo que llamamos locura es algo que causa un pavor general. Produce tanto miento, y tan irracional, que las personas que sufren alguna enfermedad mental son estigmatizadas y aisladas socialmente, cosa que empeora de manera fatal su dolencia. Porque estar loco, ya lo he dicho antes, es sobre todo estar solo. Es una ruptura de la narración común, es salirse de la convención social.

Porque la característica esencial de lo que llamamos locura es la soledad, pero una soledad monumental. Una soledad tan grande que no cabe dentro de la palabra soledad y que uno no puede ni llegar a imaginar si no ha estado ahí. Es sentir que te has desconectado del mundo, que no te van a poder entender, que no tienes #Palabras para expresarte.

El trastorno psíquico es un súbito e inesperado rayo que te fulmina. Su devastadora llegada tiene cierta semejanza con los accidentes domésticos graves.

Mis ataques de pánico han sido como una excursión razonablemente segura y sin verdadero peligro al otro lado del turbulento río de la psicosis.

Her companionship had saved his reason, and in her own uncomplicated way she had got him through the blackest times, comforting by simply accepting his limitations.

Armin feel very ashamed. Ashamed of the banking system. Ashamed of Switzerland. These are terrible, unpatriotic things to feel. And I wonder if it isn't this shame which has allowed his illness in.

It's easy to be worried about the media's influence on our lives. But there is a need for us to also simply be kind to ourselves, to be kind to our bodies. Not just because we deserve more respect and more self-care, but also because the world deserves more of our attention, and we just can't give it out if it's diverted to obsessing over our thighs.

A kid shouldn't need a diagnosis to access help.

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.

It's as though as a species we have no brakes, only breakdowns.

It's so common, it could be anyone. The trouble is, nobody wants to talk about it. And that makes everything worse.

1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

I'm pretty healthy and I don't mind the idea of dying, but I also don't want to get mowed down by some freaky high school kid in a trench coat who's high on Zoloft and has traded in his Xbox for a semiautomatic.

Suicide feels like One Authentic Thing. Suicide feels like Meaning of Life. Suicide feels like having the Last Word. Suicide feels like stopping Time Forever. But of course this is all just delusion, too! Suicide is just part of life, so it is part of the delusion.