Mental Health Quotes - Page 8

• I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.

  Rufus Jones

  Circles, Events, Quiet

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• I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.

  Martha Manning

  Depression, Crazy, People

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• I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.

  Cecily McMillan

  Islands, Wings, Jail

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You can't love somebody into a state of mental health. A lot of people get into serious relationships thinking they're going to heal someone with their love and attention, but it doesn't usually work out that way.

  Harold Ramis

  Thinking, People, Work Out

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March 1, 2006.

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• Keeping them behind bars does little to reduce crime, but it does a lot to tear apart families, our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Health, Jail, Tears

  "Hillary Clinton: America must confront 'hard truths about race and justice'", www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2015.

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Music, Forgiveness

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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• It's always positive to hear how many people are willing to step up - whether it is the employment community, mental health community, or medical community.

  Michelle Obama

  People, Community, Employment

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; on those who lived in a land of deep shadow a light has shone. For the yoke that was weighing upon them and the burden upon their shoulders, thou hast broken in pieces O God.

  Isaiah

  Land, Light, People

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• I've obviously come from a health background. I was a doctor before I became a pollie and one of the things I'd like to do is to really build on the world-class health system we've got. I'm passionate about climate change because it's also a health issue. Things like extreme weather impact on people's health, the ability of our hospitals to cope, the impact on mental health, on farmers in regional areas - they're all serious health concerns.

  Richard Di Natale

  Class, Weather, Issues

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or it might descend like a sudden catastrophe, this blankness between ourselves and the rest of the world. The blankness might not even be obvious to others. But on our side of that severed connection, it was hell, a life lived behind glass. The only difference between mild depression and severe schizophrenia was the amount of sound and air that seeped in.

  Tracy Thompson

  Differences, Glasses, Air

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• There are no free and democratic and wealthy countries in the world that have US rate of gun violence. We have to worry about loners and alienated people. We have to do better on mental health.

  David Brooks

  Country, Gun, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Given Freudian assumptions about the nature of children and the biological predestination of mothers, it is unthinkable for mothers voluntarily to leave their babies in others' care, without guilt about the baby's well-being and a sense of self-deprivation. Mothers need their babies for their own mental health, and babies need their mothers for their mental health--a reciprocal and symbiotic relationship.

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• I think one of the issues quite often, from a mental health perspective, that people find power behind a gun. Frequently, that is the issue behind most people. They feel a loss of power. They use a gun to sort of equalize things. And, of course, once the process begins, quite often people die in that process.

  Daayiee Abdullah

  Loss, Gun, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

  Richard Carlson

  Inspirational, Stress, Relaxation

  Richard Carlson (2016). “You Can Be Happy No Matter What”, p.161, Mango Media Inc.

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• I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, People, Deviation

  YouTube Chanel "hazzaroonee"/ "cocaine decisions", www.youtube.com. February 24, 2007.

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• I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

  Tipper Gore

  Good Man, Important, Care

  "Tipper Gore Details Depression Treatment" by Ceci Connolly, www.washingtonpost.com. May 8, 1999.

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• Self esteem is not the same as being self centered, self absorbed or selfish. Self esteem is also not complacency or overconfidence, both of which and set us up for failure. Self esteem is a strong motivator to work hard. Self esteem is related to mental health and happiness.

  Glenn R. Schiraldi

  Strong, Self Esteem, Selfish

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• Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jail, Prison, Institutions

  "Read: Hillary Clinton's huge new speech on criminal justice reform". Hillary Clinton's speech at Columbia University, www.vox.com. April 29, 2015.

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• The relation of eugenics to British psychiatry bears examination. The primary controlling body for psychiatry in England is the British National Association for Mental Health (NAMH), formed in 1944, and initially run by the mentally unstable Montagu Norman, previously of the Bank of England. The group originally met at Norman's London home, where he and Nazi Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht had met in the 1930s to arrange financing for Hitler.

  Jim Keith

  Running, Home, Eugenics

  Jim Keith (2003). “Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness”, p.16, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• The "environmental movement" is becoming an economic movement, is joining the social justice movement, is becoming a sustainability movement. It's leaving behind the "People's Needs versus Nature's Needs" conflict in favor of making the case for environmental health as the essential underpinning of prosperous and stable human civilization.

  Edward Norton

  Environmental Health, Civilization, Justice

  "Dialogues on the Environment: Q&A With Edward Norton". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• It is culturally constructed, but not unnecessary. A crisis is a period in a person's life that lasts at least a year during which there is an unusual level of emotional instability, negativity, and crucially, major changes. This is important because right now, when you diagnose mental health problems, where you are in life doesn't really come into it. Psychologists are saying that it should.

  Oliver Robinson

  Emotional, Negativity, Important

  Source: www.slate.com

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• From wearable sensors to video game treatments, everyone seems to be looking to technology as the next wave of innovation for mental health care.

  Thomas R. Insel

  Technology, Games, Innovation

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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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• Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to mental health care? What if your employer was morally opposed to getting x-rays or antibiotics? How about just being forced to disclose your private medical information to your employer?

  Richard Carmona

  Boss, What If, Just Being

  "Arizona Effort to Block Contraception Simply Bad Health Policy" by Richard Carmona, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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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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