Mental Health Quotes - Page 11

• Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Brother, Children, Drug

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• I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where the poems came from?.

  Betsy Lerner

  Brain, Littles, Dots

  Betsy Lerner (2004). “Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

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• Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

  David Richo

  Relationship, Beautiful, Get Well

  David Richo (2007). “The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• The Bush Administration believes the Kyoto protocol could damage our collective prosperity, and in so doing, actually put our long-term environmental health at risk. Fundamentally, we believe that the protocol both will fail to significantly reduce the long-term risks posed by climate change and, in the short run, will seriously impede our ability to meet our energy needs and economic growth.

  Lawrence B. Lindsey

  Running, Believe, Environmental Health

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• With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care.

  Thomas R. Insel

  People, Addiction, Principles

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• Childhood trauma is not necessarily a prophecy of doom, because some children are resilient or because later experiences help to restore mental health.

  Richard Bentall

  Children, Childhood, Helping

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• [Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.

  Peter Breggin

  Children, Educational, Taken

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• The buying of a self-help book is the most desperate of all human acts. It means you've lost your mind completely: You've entrusted your mental health to a self-aggrandizing twit with a psychology degree and a yen for a yacht.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Book, Mean, Self

  Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”

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• You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Hands, Ties

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• An environment of carping and criticism is dangerous to your mental health, whereas those who support and encourage you bring out your true potential and spark your genius.

  Willard F. Harley

  Support, Criticism, Genius

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• Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.

  Stephen Mitchell

  Creativity, Paradigm, Normality

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• That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Pain, Sadness, Space

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

  David Satcher

  Suicide, Country, Different

  "U.S. surgeon-general focuses on suicide, mental health". www.cnn.com. April 17, 1998.

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• Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Children, School, People

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.78, Sahitya Akademi

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• It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.

  Daniel Quinn

  Sunset, Fire, Ideas

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• What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.

  Ernest Becker

  Lying, Mean, Reality

  Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn't just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health.

  Sylvia Brownrigg

  Drug, Nerves, Tools

  Sylvia Brownrigg (2011). “Pages for You”, p.242, Pan Macmillan

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• There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

  Anthony de Mello

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.4, Image

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• Holly frowned at her. "Glad to see you've forgiven yourself so quickly." "Harboring feelings of guilt can have a negative affect on mental health." "Child geniuses," growled Holly. "Genii," said Minerva.

  Eoin Colfer

  Children, Hollies, Feelings

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.

  Erich Fromm

  Validation, Ideas, People

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Worry

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• My hobbies include maintaining my physical and mental health. It's a full-time job. Yoga definitely helps for both of them. I'm a big fan of relaxing and not having a schedule. That's my best way to keep from going crazy.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Jobs, Crazy, Yoga

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

  William Stafford

  Kindness, Not Giving Up, Thoughtful

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• Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

  Diane Abbott

  Missing, Debate, Public Health

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• Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Motivational, Soul, Mind

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