Best 1014 quotes in «mental health quotes» category

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

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

I could feel myself begin to recede, to tip and lose balance, slide toward the deeper darkness that had crept from outside

Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people.

I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it.

I have called you by name, you are mine... you are precious in my sight.

I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth, I've a wife that I love and that loves me; I've all but riches bodily.

It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely

I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.

It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.

I've come to terms with it, it knows I know.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.

Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?

Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc.

Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

My colleagues and I fought to increase the resources to address several things, like maternity, prenatal, and newborn care, and mental health and substance abuse treatment. These are things everybody should care about, and resources should be available for families.

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?

Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come.

Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it.

People are more concerned about the economy then these ridiculous concerns as to gender inequity in society, as manifested in marriages, in the mental health system, and then in literature.

People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.

Positive mental attitude is determined by you. Not others.

Raising self-centered kids is not good for society, but it's also not good for their own mental health to be completely self-absorbed.

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

The insanity rate per capita in South Africa is appalling. ...it is easily seen that a primary requisite in any programme of the rehabilitation of the Bantu in South Africa would be mental health.

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?

The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.

The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.

Theory is good for the intellect, but action is good for the soul. It's also good for your mental health, your physical health, and your pocketbook.

There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

The significance is that it is my challenge; it gets me out of the door every morning and it is good for my physical and mental health which I can monitor on a daily basis.

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.