Quotes About Mental health

How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal farther?

Do all kids have to worry about their parents' mental health?

Even now I occasionally get a long letter from Kimiko, who's still in and out of mental hospitals. I've never written a reply. The Last Picture Show Iwas eighteen.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.

Testosterone rots the brain . . .

Sometimes he thinks the walls are throbbing, as if the water-stained concrete has developed a tic, and then he allows himself to close his eyelids which are as heavy as iron shields, so that he can tell himself who he is.

Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

In the broadest sense, however, meditation is simply the ability to stop suffering in many of the usual ways, if only for a few moments at a time. How could that not be a skill worth cultivating?

Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage

Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones.

We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body.

People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.

The concept of "mental health" in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.

Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.

Eating chocolates or popping pills won't reduce depression.Instead, one must read Gita. This will help relieve the stress and depression in life. It will help in dealing with challenges of life.

Life is too short to spend forty to fifty hours around people who do nothing but stress you out and make you desire to go stick your head in a blender.

See yourself living in a new body. Hopeful = recovery. Happy = happier biochemistry. Stress degrades the bod.

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.

The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go.