Mental Health Quotes - Page 3

• I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Emotional, Careers, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.

  Linda Hamilton

  Depression, Fall, Able

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• I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.

  Tipper Gore

  Sports, Team, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

  Judy Collins

  Suicide, Needs, Helping

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• Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Health, Bipolar, Three

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• I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

  Alanis Morissette

  Athlete, Stronger, Jocks

  "Alanis Morissette's new outlook on health". www.cnn.com. November 13, 2009.

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• I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Medicine, People

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• Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.

  Carrie Fisher

  Depression, Fun, Sleep

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• Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.

  Richard Codey

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Mom

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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.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ideas, Say Anything, Bed

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.93, Hamilton Books

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• I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

  Jean Piaget

  Mother, Attitude, Reality

  Richard Isadore Evans, Jean Piaget (1973). “Dialogue with Jean Piaget”, Praeger Publishers

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• As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

  Susan Faludi

  Employment, Facts, Injustice

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: the undeclared war against American women”, Crown Pub

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• Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  People, Complicated, Felt

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

  Winona Ryder

  Good Day, Bad Day, Mental Illness

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• I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.

  Alan Thicke

  Reality, Bigs, Components

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• I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

  Kirstie Alley

  Believe, Eating Disorder, Screw Ups

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• Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Pills, Mental Illness

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

  Emilie Autumn

  Suicide, Suicidal, People

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• I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

  Anthony Storr

  Bipolar, Lines, Want

  " Anthony Storr, the face of psychiatry, dies" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2001.

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• Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?

  Sargent Shriver

  Believe, Sacrifice, Dignity Of Work

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• I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

  Adam Ant

  Illness

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• I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

  Gail Porter

  Want, Mental Illness, Breaking Down

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• In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Literature, Way

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.

  Tom Bosley

  Depression, Thinking, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.

  Parker Posey

  Order, People, Agents

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