Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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.
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.
I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.
Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.
You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.
I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.
We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
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.
I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.
I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.
If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
There is no health without mental health.
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
The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health
Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.
Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.
Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have
To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."
Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to legitimate buyers.
I have been cut in two.
I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.
Mental health is one of the biggest concerns, because now police are having to handle a lot of really difficult mental health problems on the street.
Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions
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.
Positive mental attitude is determined by you. Not others.
Be both a speaker of words and a doer of deeds.
If we take care of our mental health like our dental health; we'll be ok.
Group meditation according to Jon Kabat
You can't love somebody into a state of mental health.
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.
You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.
Even with mental health as well as physical health, it's about taking responsibility and knowing that you're part of the solution always.
Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.
The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.
Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.
This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.
A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health.
The attitudes towards mental health must change
The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.
The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.
I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.
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.
It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.
I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what's going on all the time.
I've come to terms with it, it knows I know.
You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.
Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.
Sometimes it's dramatic, but mental health, as a whole, has to become mainstream.
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
We're going to be addressing that very strongly and the whole mental health issue is going to be a very important issue when I take over and the V.A. is going to be fixed in so many ways but that's going to be one of the ways we're going to help.
If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.
It's a terrible thing to be lonesome, especially in the middle of a crowd.
Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come.
The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.
The multitude of the sick shall not make us deny the existence of health.
The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing