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Mental-health Quotes
"Madness is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you, but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there." 'We've all felt that.' 'And all of us, one way or another, are mad."
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"Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard the word shouted, screamed."
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"Going mad is the beginning of a process. It is not supposed to be the end result."
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"But laugh, laugh, laugh, because if you ever stop laughing, it might just tear you apart."
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"The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the fatigue that lets the jumpers fall at last."
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"If you ever felt alone, come to my cottage and drink the whole bottle; it is not so bad to be abnormal for a while."
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"Keep negative people long meters away from you; their presence is a threat to your high self-esteem! Job, the man of God kept his wife afar before he could make it again!"
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"If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air."
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"When I really worry about something, I don t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don t go. I m too worried to go. I don t want to interrupt my worrying to go."
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"I was cyber-bullied before all those Myspace-related suicides, so my school principal wasn't really impressed when my mom complained about what was happening to me on my Xanga blog and on AIM chat."Get your life sorted out, you fucking scitzo [sic] dyke tranny bitch, one comment might say.Another comment would say something like, "I know she's reading this, she's so pathetic.And, perhaps most frightening of all: "I'm going to fuck you up until your mother bleeds."
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"A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety."
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"I am too sick to lay downthe sidewalks frighten methe whole damned city frightens me,what I will becomewhat I have becomefrightens me."
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"The strength of your mind determines the quality of your life."
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"I have to trust that, or I'll lose my mind. Well, lose it more."
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"I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it."
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"Still, what could i say? that i didn't just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones? that if he got blue, i got black? that i hated those pills so much, because i knew how much i relied on them to live?"
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"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong."
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"Sometimes I get such paranoia that I refresh and wait and wait in the same page until I get answer???Why??I'm not a crazy,..."
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"Never tell a depressed person to "Cheer up. Unless you want them to tell you to "Shut up."
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"Band together with the brothers and sisters of misery and never stray. You are the integral part of the deeply depressed. We found you. Hooray."
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"If you follow the pescribed way of how people want you to be, then it will be of great relieve if you commit suicide than to be dragged along like a donkey."
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"But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liablefor my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions."
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"I can't sleep during the nights, I feel carrying the world on my shoulders."
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"Solitude sometimes is best society."
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"You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human."
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"I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide."
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"To increase the chances of a writer trying to kill themselves, cut off their hands."
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"Some people count sheep. I self-loathe."
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"Depression, is like trying to find a light switch in pitch darkness. Defeating it takes much assistance and resource. First, it's letting in loved ones that are reaching out, when light will begin to shine."
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"I think we all keep irritating situations in our head to long, until we finally realize it's taking up valuable space."
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"When you're having a depressive surge painful memories can start to emerge."
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"I'm too much of a coward to kill myself. And too much of a coward to live."
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"When you have mental illness it's common to be shunned by your family or friends it wouldn't happen if they knew the pain you were in."
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"Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something," said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything."
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"But this time is ours, and we cannot live hating ourselves."
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"You don't seem mad at all,' she said.But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?"
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"She's a sickness in my head.Then get well.What you feel is self-made and attended to over time. You want to let go but are unwilling to let go because you are getting something from it; An escape? An excuse? Bondage?You are idealizing another person, building up the idea of them, and making them a legend in your own mind.Is it really a sickness or something you can control?The question is: do you even want to?Each time a thought creeps into your mind, you choose whether to give it freedom to remain or to wander. You can rebuke it or replace it. After all, it's your mind."
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"Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic."
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"I count everything. Even numbers, odd numbers, multiples of 10. I count the ticks of the clock i count the tocks of the clock I count the lines between the lines on a sheet of paper. I count the broken beats of my heart I count my pulse and my blinks and the number of tries it takes to inhale enough oxygen for my lungs. I stay like this I stand like this I count like this until the feeling stops. Until the tears stop spilling, until my fists stop shaking, until my heart stops aching. There are never enough numbers."
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"To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown."
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"I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you."
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"I tried to kill myself when I was thirteen but failed. That was the greatest failure of my life."
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"There are no sides in suicide."
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"It is horrible being all alone."
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"It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore."
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"I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion."
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"This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self."
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"A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down."
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"I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity."
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"Write something even if it's just a suicide note."
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