Mental Health Quotes - Page 12

• The study also included the disturbing revelation that most of the troops who reported having mental health problems also reported that they did not seek or did not receive care for their problems.

  John M. McHugh

  Troops, Care, Study

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• If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

  Claude McKay

  Inspirational, Faith, Men

  Claude McKay, Gene Andrew Jarrett (1937). “A Long Way from Home”, p.82, Rutgers University Press

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• Is there no way out of the mind?

  Sylvia Plath

  Frustration, Mind, Feminism

  'Apprehensions'

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• Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless...

  John Green

  Fighting, Caring, Luxury

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• I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Reading, Recovery, Kissing

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.207, Penguin

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• How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?

  E. Lockhart

  Orange, Sparkle, Madness

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 3: The Treasure Map of Boys”, p.31, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Beauty, Nature

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from London, vangoghletters.org. April 30, 1874.

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• [Ranger] "How's your mental health?" he asked. "I heard about Soder." [Stephanie] "I'm rattled." "I have a cure." Oh, boy. He put the truck in gear and headed for the exit. "I know what you're thinking," he said. "And that wasn't where I was going. I was going to suggest work." "I knew that." He looked over at me and grinned. "You want me bad." I did. God help me.

  Janet Evanovich

  Boys, Thinking, Gears

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• In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Support, Typical, Groups

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• The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.

  Juliette Lewis

  Life, Mental Illness, Continuing

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

  Isaiah

  Sight, Names, Vocation

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• I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of that pain.

  Ellen Page

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "Time to Thrive". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2014.

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• Freud: If it's not one thing, it's your mother

  Robin Williams

  Mother, Humorous, Psychology

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• Reading is professionally important for me to keep tuned in to what's being written in my genre, let's not lie. But that's not the reason I read. I read for my own emotional and mental health. If I stopped reading, I'd probably just die.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Lying, Reading, Emotional

  Source: nerdbastards.com

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• I'm not going to sacrifice my mental health to have the perfect body.

  Demi Lovato

  Acceptance, Sacrifice, Perfect

  "Demi Lovato Responds To 'Fatty' Tweet With An 'I Love You'", www.foxnews.com. April 18, 2014.

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• There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and happiness.

  Dan Barker

  Joy, Doubt, Mind

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Crazy, Insanity, Intelligence

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• Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.

  Dean Karnazes

  Sports, Running, Office

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• I don't think anything good is happening. I think we're paying the price for it. I think while crime in general is going down, youth crime is going up. I think mental health problems of the youth are going up. You can't show causality. It's a hard stretch.

  Edward Zigler

  Thinking, Causality, Youth

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• As young girls we grow up with the idea that life is going to be a bit of a fairytale. But at some point reality hits and we realise that's not what life is about. Many of us are faced with eating disorders and mental health struggles, bad relationships and heartbreak, low self-esteem and confused sexualities and more. Life is very much real.

  Darren Fletcher

  Girl, Growing Up, Confused

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• A sense of humor is regarded as a sign of mental health - apart from excessive punning, which is another matter entirely.

  Helen Cresswell

  Matter, Sense Of Humor, Punning

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• 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.

  Charles Darwin

  Music, Week, Made

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.

  Bobby Scott

  Jobs, Skills, Drug

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• The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.

  John Piper

  Highest

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• Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects be collected, would make no inconsiderable figure in the bills of mortality.

  William Falconer

  Agitation, Care, Bills

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