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Mental-health Quotes
"The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night."
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"But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. - Hazel Grace Lancaster."
78
"Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side."
49
"Alcohol's been keeping depression alive and well for over ten thousand years."
47
"For our anxiety is the one thing we cannot place on the shoulders of others, it suffocates them."
45
"I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn't say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed."
45
"The depressed person was in terrible andunceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror. Despairing, then, of describing the emotional pain itself, the depressed person hoped at least to be able to express something of its context, its shape and texture, as it were-by recounting circumstances related to its etiology."
44
"Your depression is connected to your insolenceand refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or womansteals from others every day--is a shoplifter!The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself.Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline.The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes.The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close."
43
"Suicide and mental health problems have no boundaries."
42
"I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me."
42
"We are taught to believe that the 'alienation' that we experience sometimes, when we withdraw from everything or feel alone, is a craving for something sexual, material, or in the physical - and can be cured by popping a pill in most cases. When in Truth, it's the circuitry within our souls and minds that is hinting to be connected - to real flowing energy - outside of our TVs and computer monitors. What many of us mistaken for depression is actually a need to be understood, or to see desires come to fruition. There is absolutely nothing abnormal about feeling disconnected. Your sensitivity only means you are more human than most. If you cry, you are alive. I'd be more worried if you didn't."
42
"Self-harm appealed to my sadness but I didn't let it coax me."
42
"To stay sane in a mad world is the real victory."
39
"As a manager, I was able to put the USA workplace mental health system to the test. In each of three separate companies there was an employee that was displaying mental health issues and I reported this to the human resources department. The outcome: I was terminated every time. The conclusion: Reporting mental health issues in USA employees will lose you your job!"
39
"I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else."
38
"A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to reason with the lead singer who had locked himself in the bathroom with a bottle of pills and was refusing to come out till it could be proved conclusively to him that he wasn't a fish. The bass player was busy machine-gunning his bedroom and the drummer was nowhere on board.Frantic inquiries led to the discovery that he was standing on a beach on Santraginus V over a hundred light years away where, he claimed, he had been happy for over half an hour now and had found a small stone that would be his friend."
38
"One has to understand that THINKING and WORRYING are polar opposites, though functioning from same source MIND. While THINKING, is a life-affirmative phenomenon which promotes positivity, hope and motivates the soul to reach higher sphere of life. WORRYING, solely makes one more vulnerable to restlessness & depression driving into life-negative state."
38
"I'm Bipolar but as normal as you except for the times my mind thinks like two."
38
"Insanity is a gradual process - don't rush it."
38
"There comes a point where you have to stop trying to repair yourself and accept the fact that you're broken."
38
"Maybe it could be depression, like you get. I can understand now how you suffer when you're depressed; I always thought you liked it and I thought you could have snapped yourself out any time, if not alone, then by means of the mood organ. But when you get that depressed you don't care. Apathy, because you've lost a sense of worth."
37
"If you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready."
37
"If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide."
36
"There is no feeling quite so lonely as failure."
36
"Genius by birth, Bipolar by design."
36
"Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein."
35
"Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that?"
34
"In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'What is it then?'It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide."
33
"The weight you life is not nearly as heavy as the weigh you carry."
33
"Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. raise the rent and kick them out!"
32
"I was afraid to let other make any decisions, because I had no confidence they would be concerned for me."
32
"His wits have gone dark as his eyes."
31
"Anxiety's already tingling my skin."
31
"The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself."
29
"I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease."
28
"My bed is the magical place I love to overthink like a PSYCHO."
28
"Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artifact of your mental illness."
27
"Depression lives and grows in the swamp of need."
26
"A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money."
26
"We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed."
26
"Death kills us once, worry kills us every day."
26
"No, I mean earlier. Where'd you go? You weren't here with me because no, nothing happened. I could see on your face that something was wrong, so I didn't do it. But now you need to think long and hard about where you were inside that head of yours, because you were panicked. You were hysterical and I need to know what it was that took you there so I can make sure you never go back."
25
"Anxiety does not take away stress; it just enhances it. If you accept changes with optimism and love, anxiety will melt away."
25
"And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living."
25
"When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time."
24
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."
24
"I just kind of put my feelings away somewhere after that."
24
"Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul. On the other hand, when the sun appeared, the children would come out to play in the streets, and everyone was happy that it was such a lovely day, and then I would feel terrible, as if that display of exuberance in which i could not participate was somehow unfair."
23
"I have to trust that, or I'll lose my mind. Well, lose it more."
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