Mental Health Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• Where LGBT and mental health issues collide is over stigma. And stigma is society's problem not the problem of the LGBT or mental health community. What we have to deal with is the ignorance, fear and prejudice that blight the lives of those who have nothing wrong with them in any moral or transgressive sense. It is society that is ill.

  Stephen Fry

  Ignorance, Issues, Community

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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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• There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Inspirational, Taken, Sticks

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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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 "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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• The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Growth, Crafts

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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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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