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Mental-health Quotes
"The best way to overcome depression is to work it to death. Whether it be your body or your mind, just be active and some relief you'll find."
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"The strength of your mind determines the quality of your life."
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"I admit I have Mental Illness so please no more 'Fruit Cakes' for Christmas Please."
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"I just kind of put my feelings away somewhere after that."
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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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"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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"But he [Depression] just gives me that dark smile, settles into my favorite chair, puts his feet on my table and lights a cigar, filling the place with his awful smoke. Loneliness watches and sighs, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He's going to make me sleep with him again tonight, I just know it."
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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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"And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living."
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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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"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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"Whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off-then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can."
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"Sometimes I have to act crazy to handle the crazies. Trying to be normal near the crazies makes me as crazy as them. The more I push reason and logic on them, the more they pervert it and use it against me, the angrier they make me feel. It's much easier to pretend they're ghosts talking to the wind, and ignore them as if they weren't really human. My mood improves, my self-esteem is better and I feel happier. On another hand, maybe I'm just being realistic here, because you can't really talk to the dead. That's what people without respect or empathy are; dead in the brain; just walking bodies without a soul."
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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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"There is a dead space between most people and those afflicted with Mental Illness and it's called Understanding."
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"Make the tough choice, decide you will not be a garbage ground for other people's trash. Protect your mind."
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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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"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."
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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 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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"You're insane!""I won't argue that point."
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"When you stress out, things will stress out around you. Always control your thoughts and pacify any unnecessary stress. Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony."
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"I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it."
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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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"Anxiety and depression, and the physical symptoms they cause, are merely distractions and smokescreens to "protect you from dangers, which are usually, imaginary."
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"It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary."
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