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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."
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"Alcohol's been keeping depression alive and well for over ten thousand years."
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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."
50
"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."
48
"For our anxiety is the one thing we cannot place on the shoulders of others, it suffocates them."
47
"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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"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."
46
"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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"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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"I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else."
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"I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me."
44
"Self-harm appealed to my sadness but I didn't let it coax me."
44
"Suicide and mental health problems have no boundaries."
43
"There comes a point where you have to stop trying to repair yourself and accept the fact that you're broken."
43
"To stay sane in a mad world is the real victory."
42
"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."
42
"I'm Bipolar but as normal as you except for the times my mind thinks like two."
42
"Insanity is a gradual process - don't rush it."
42
"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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"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."
41
"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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"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."
40
"If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide."
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"Genius by birth, Bipolar by design."
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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."
37
"There is no feeling quite so lonely as failure."
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"Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that?"
36
"The weight you life is not nearly as heavy as the weigh you carry."
35
"Anxiety's already tingling my skin."
35
"I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease."
34
"Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. raise the rent and kick them out!"
34
"I was afraid to let other make any decisions, because I had no confidence they would be concerned for me."
34
"The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself."
33
"His wits have gone dark as his eyes."
33
"I am committing suicide by cigarette, I replied. She thought that was reasonably funny. I didn't. I thought it was hideous that I should scorn life that much, sucking away on cancer sticks."
32
"A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money."
31
"I just kind of put my feelings away somewhere after that."
31
"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."
30
"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."
30
"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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"My bed is the magical place I love to overthink like a PSYCHO."
28
"When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time."
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"We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed."
27
"Death kills us once, worry kills us every day."
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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."
27
"Depression lives and grows in the swamp of need."
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"I have to trust that, or I'll lose my mind. Well, lose it more."
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"And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living."
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