Mental Health Quotes - Page 12

• In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Support, Typical, Groups

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• How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?

  E. Lockhart

  Orange, Sparkle, Madness

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 3: The Treasure Map of Boys”, p.31, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Reading, Recovery, Kissing

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.207, Penguin

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• Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless...

  John Green

  Fighting, Caring, Luxury

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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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• A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.

  Neil Gaiman

  Space, Safety, Giving

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.14, HarperCollins

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• Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a bad mood because they're able to ruminate on whatever the problem at hand is, and that makes it worse. But when you intercept the rumination process with something that requires your full attention - that's stimulating and absorbing, that places a demand on your intellectual focus - you don't get to ruminate. In a way, it's a mental health aid to be able to do that so much. My routine, what I do, it just feels like home. It's my comfort food.

  Maria Popova

  Fall, Home, Bad Day

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• Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

  Bobby Scott

  Jobs, Skills, Drug

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• I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

  Ned Vizzini

  Sad, Depression, Suicide

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• The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Secret, Allies, Ends

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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• Attitudes to mental health are slowly changing, there's less stigma among healthcare workers and a greater commitment to provide mental health treatment when doctors and nurses can see people do get better.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Attitude, Health, Commitment

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• The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.

  John Piper

  Highest

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• Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

  William Falconer

  Agitation, Care, Bills

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• I believe what I call common sense gun reform. Plus, a revolution in mental health, making sure that if people are having a nervous breakdown, or are suicidal, or homicidal, they get the care they need when they need it. I think the vast majority of the American people can support and agenda composed of those features.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Suicidal, Thinking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It was only after the earthquake that the health minister said mental health should be a priority and that the issue was talked about.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Health, Earthquakes, Issues

  "Voodou Priests And Doctors Are On The Frontline Of Haiti’s Mental Health Care" by Anastasia Moloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2015.

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• The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

  Matthew Quick

  Stories, Normal, Problem

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• Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Lying, Reading, Emotional

  Source: nerdbastards.com

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• A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely.

  Helen Cresswell

  Matter, Sense Of Humor, Punning

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• The way football is being played currently, that I have seen, it's dangerous. It's dangerous and it could impact their long-term mental health. You only get one brain.

  Ann McKee

  Football, Impact, Nfl

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