Mental Health Quotes - Page 10

• Voices in the darkness scream away my mental health, can I ask a question to help me save me from myself?

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Voice, Darkness, Unanswered Questions

  Song: Diary Of A Madman

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• I think it's part of your mental health to let go of things. I think if you would have it all right there, it would be a little overwhelming. I don't know how you'd have a relationship. When you have a relationship, don't two people collude to kind of forget certain things?

  Dylan Walsh

  Letting Go, Thinking, Two

  "Dylan Walsh Talks ‘Unforgettable’ Role, Working With Poppy Montgomery". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun.

  Andy Borowitz

  Gun, Dreamer, Wish

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• I have been cut in two.

  Anne Sexton

  Cutting, Two, Has Beens

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. No small talk, no anecdotes. Nothing can be risked on the board of talk. Because the inner voice is so urgent in its own discourse: How shall I live? How shall I manage the future? Why should I go on?

  Kate Millett

  Depression, Voice, Anecdotes

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.283, University of Illinois Press

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• [Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.

  Kate Millett

  Jail, Mind, Steps

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• Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.

  Andrew Solomon

  Pain, Iron, Knowing

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

  Andrew Solomon

  Soul, Being Depressed, Hated

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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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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• Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Healing, Practice, Criticism

  Essays (Second series) 'Nominalist and Realist'

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

  Stephen Mitchell

  Creativity, Paradigm, Normality

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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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• 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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• One makes whatever revolution one can, each in their own way.

  Mircea Andreescu

  Way, Revolution

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• What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!

  Publilius Syrus

  Support, Tragedy, Helping

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• There's no reason to assume that my idea of what's better would really be better. I resent it when other people try to inflict their ideas of betterness on me. I don't think they know. And I can't see any authority on the horizon that's got any answers that seem worthwhile. Most of the things that are suggested are probably detrimental to your mental health.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• But reducing harmful emissions, abating our dependence on foreign oil and developing alternative renewable energy sources have benefits that go beyond environmental health, they improve personal health, enhance national security and encourage our nations economic viability.

  Jim Clyburn

  Environmental Health, Oil, Energy

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• 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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• Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

  M. Scott Peck

  Reality, Dedication, Cost

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• The 4-H Clubs believe in and practice the full development of our talents. They believe in physical and mental health. Beyond this there is an underlying creed of honesty of purpose. These objectives and practical projects make the 4-H Clubs a tremendous influence for the betterment of our country.

  Fred M. Vinson

  Country, Honesty, Believe

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• The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Evil, Steps, Acknowledgement

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• This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.

  Joe Rogan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2013

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• The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

  Samuel Wilson

  Environmental Health, Should, Infrastructure

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• We now know that the way to help a child develop optimally is to help create connections in her brain—her whole brain—that develop skills that lead to better relationships, better mental health, and more meaningful lives. You could call it brain sculpting, or brain nourishing, or brain building. Whatever phrase you prefer, the point is crucial, and thrilling: as a result of the words we use and the actions we take, children’s brains will actually change, and be built, as they undergo new experiences.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Meaningful, Children, New Experiences

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• Only in the present do things happen.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Happens, Things Happen

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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