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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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"Suicide and mental health problems have no boundaries."
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"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."
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"Genius by birth, Bipolar by design."
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"Alcohol's been keeping depression alive and well for over ten thousand years."
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"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."
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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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The weight you life is not nearly as heavy as the weigh you carry."
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"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."
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"Insanity is a gradual process - don't rush it."
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"Self-harm appealed to my sadness but I didn't let it coax me."
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"Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. raise the rent and kick them out!"
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"The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself."
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"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."
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"For our anxiety is the one thing we cannot place on the shoulders of others, it suffocates them."
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"I was afraid to let other make any decisions, because I had no confidence they would be concerned for me."
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"I'm Bipolar but as normal as you except for the times my mind thinks like two."
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"I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me."
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"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."
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"His wits have gone dark as his eyes."
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"But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I didn't care if they sang to me.All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again,pulling me upward into light,to drown."
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"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."
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"Anxiety's already tingling my skin."
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"It's not my fault I can't be like you, okay? I don't get up in the morning thinking the world is one big, shiny, happy place, okay? That's just not how I work. I don't think I can be fixed."
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"To stay sane in a mad world is the real victory."
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"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."
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"If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide."
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"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!"
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"If the context is lost and merely bits and pieces remain from a scattered existence, only the connection of anchor points may reinstate a distorted mental balance in an upset life story. ['Lost the global story.']"
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"I didn't sleep well last night because one of my ghosts came back, haunting with his presence, and when I woke up, the others weren't here, haunting with their memory."
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"The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain."
4
"You must not end your life because you failed an examination. Failing an examination or making a mistake does not make you a failure at life. The context of life is broader than that."
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"Anxiety does not take away stress; it just enhances it. If you accept changes with optimism and love, anxiety will melt away."
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"Taking your own life could become the ultimate failure, because you will be killing and closing the existing door to a chance that might have been waiting to lead you into another path."
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"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."
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"Each positive thought is your refuge and your sanctuary, where in that thoughtful moment, you are safe."
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"Death kills us once, worry kills us every day."
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"To anyone who is living with uncontrollable worries: Your life isn't as bad as you think it is. It is your frequent negative interpretations of it that are making you feel that way. Try giving your life some positive meanings on a regular basis and see how good your life becomes."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment."
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"No one sees your strength, do they? No one sees the silent battle you fight against your overprotective mind that's trying to keep you safe from harm by keeping you safe from risk, safe from connection, safe from honesty. Maybe others don't see, but you see it sometimes, don't you? In the mirror, in those eyes, begging for someone to notice. You have noticed. It is real. You are strong. You are fighting for something incredible. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise-especially not your thoughts."
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"Anxiety swarms in the heart like worms infect the whole body."
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"Depression lives and grows in the swamp of need."
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"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."
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"We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use."
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"Do you know why you're here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane."
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