Mental Health Quotes - Page 17

• I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

  Mira Bartok

  Helping, Illness, Crisis

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• Now I'm starting to understand what the kind of power is. It has been healing for me, and very therapeutic even today. It's one of the reasons why I went back to school to study psychology and mental health, was to understand why that is.

  Sharon Van Etten

  School, Healing, Psychology

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

  Frank Zappa

  Crazy, Parent, Ifs

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• When the psychiatrist approves of a person's actions, he judges that person to have acted with "free choice"; when he disapproves,he judges him to have acted without "free choice." It is small wonder that people find "free choice" a confusing idea: "free choice" appears to refer to what the person being judged (often called the "patient") does, whereas it is actually what the person making the judgment (often a psychiatrist or other mental health worker) thinks.

  Thomas Szasz

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The main difference that sets our nation apart is what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic commonsense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Gun, Mass Shootings

  "CNN Newsroom" with Rosa Flores, www.cnn.com. September 22, 2013.

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• Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "critical reason and common sense." Freud for his part criticized Jung for being gullible about occult phenomena and infatuated with Oriental religions; he viewed with sardonic and unmitigated skepticism Jung's defense of religious feelings as an integral element in mental health. For Freud, religion was a psychological need projected onto culture, the child's feeling of helplessness surviving in adults, to be analyzed rather than admired.

  Peter Gay

  Religious, Children, Psychological Needs

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• ...I tried to kill myself. It was a feeble attempt, but I did. And I got put in a mental hospital for a month, and I got myself straight and worked on my mental health...it's nothing that I hide. It's nothing to be proud of or to be ashamed of. It's part of my life, you know? And I'm still here!

  Audra McDonald

  Wisdom, Health, Reality

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• What this means is that children, homemakers, executives, farmers, and long-living persons can all have high ego strength and good mental health if they possess the courage, humor, and flexibility of equilibrium between their rational and metaphoric minds.

  Bob Samples

  Children, Mean, Long

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• Mental health depends upon the maintenance of a balance within the personality between the basic human urges and egocentric wisheson the one hand and the demands of conscience and society on the other hand.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Hands, Personality, Balance

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.

  Ishmael

  Wonderful

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• In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that our police officers are getting the mental health help they need.

  Brian Lindstrom

  People, Police, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social.

  Peter Kinderman

  Believe, Social, Should

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude them from our circle.

  John Darnielle

  Crazy, Believe, Circles

  "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

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• When you talk about the mental health problems, when people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over and you're strong and you can handle it. But a lot of people can't handle it. And they see horror stories. They see events that you couldn't see in a movie, nobody would believe it.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, War, Believe

  "Veterans Advocate Fires Back at Donald Trump's PTSD Comments: "It's a Teachable Moment" by Peter Flax, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 3, 2016.

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• With recidivism algorithms, for example, I worry about racist outcomes. With personality tests [for hiring], I worry about filtering out people with mental health problems from jobs. And with a teacher value-added model algorithm [used in New York City to score teachers], I worry literally that it's not meaningful. That it's almost a random number generator.

  Cathy O'Neil

  Meaningful, Teacher, New York

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Following the school shootings, Hillary and Tipper Gore, as well as their husbands, got together for the first White House conference on mental health. Because of her interest in mental health and her own problem with anti-depressants, Tipper had been made the expert, the psychiatric consultant to the president, duly designated.

  Peter Breggin

  Husband, School, White

  Source: whale.to

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• I'm not a fan of the death penalty. At some level I think killing is wrong, but I don't have sympathy for most of the people sentenced - I'm not a passionate anti-death penalty person. In truth, given all the other problems of the justice system, the numbers are so small, I think there are bigger fish to fry. Ironically, in terms of mental health and care, death row is probably the best prison situation to be in. There's a little more public eye on that, to ensure at least minimal levels of official treatment are actually given to death row prisoners.

  Peter Moskos

  Eye, Thinking, Justice

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects the mental health of boys.

  Mary Pipher

  Book, Writing, Boys

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think we need to get rid of is improving our minds and our mental health. You know, when when you suffer from depression, you go this is something that I have and I can work on it, you know? I often think of depression, though, as more of a - as more of a symptom than a cause.

  Trevor Noah

  Thinking, Mind, Suffering

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

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• Donald Trump needs mental-health help.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Needs, Helping, Trump

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• I don't want to exaggerate; having as many African American men as we've had in the criminal-justice system, and the amount of time it takes for the damage done by that to wash through our society and our communities, the disadvantages born out of kids being undiagnosed with mental-health problems early, or not getting the kind of exposure to reading and math when they're 4 or 5 or 6 years old, that carries a cost.

  Barack Obama

  Reading, Kids, Math

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• The legalization of drugs, a proliferation of a public health approach to drug use and drug addition, a compassionate mental health system. And can we just say gender equality and the end of mass incarceration and the final shedding of the vestiges of a slave-based nation? Can we have that, too? Can I have it all?

  Ayelet Waldman

  Drug Use, Finals, Slave

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• I'm not a tough guy or a good fighter at all. [Boxing] is just a great way to work out that's not boring. It's also good for your mental health. If you have an Irish or Scottish last name you should definitely do it.

  Gavin McInnes

  Names, Boxing, Work Out

  Source: thoughtcatalog.com

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• When I am in Egypt, I am phoned because I am listed in the medical directory under "Mental Health and Psychiatry." And of course, I see very few people, because I give much more time to writing. So I cannot say that I really stopped medicine, but I practice medicine - or psychiatry - in a very different way. In an artistic way!

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Writing, Egypt, Practice

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• Even in these tough economic times, Barack [Obama] has left the VA budget as is so that they're prepared to deal with this influx of men and women who are coming home and dealing with a whole array of issues, not just around mental health but just caregiving and the stresses of reconnecting with families who have been away from each other for a very long time.

  Michelle Obama

  Stress, Home, Men

  Source: www.wbur.org

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