Mental Health Quotes - Page 13

• Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.

  Melissa Marr

  Pain, Fear, Talking

  Melissa Marr (2009). “Ink Exchange”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?

  Ned Vizzini

  Sad, Depression, Suicide

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• The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

  Matthew Quick

  Stories, Normal, Problem

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• I believe what I call common sense gun reform. Plus, a revolution in mental health, making sure that if people are having a nervous breakdown, or are suicidal, or homicidal, they get the care they need when they need it. I think the vast majority of the American people can support and agenda composed of those features.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Suicidal, Thinking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I have bad days. Sometimes I have a lot of bad days. By and large, I think most people fall into a bad mood because they're able to ruminate on whatever the problem at hand is, and that makes it worse. But when you intercept the rumination process with something that requires your full attention - that's stimulating and absorbing, that places a demand on your intellectual focus - you don't get to ruminate. In a way, it's a mental health aid to be able to do that so much. My routine, what I do, it just feels like home. It's my comfort food.

  Maria Popova

  Fall, Home, Bad Day

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• Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Depression, Crazy, Girl Interrupted

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.95, Vintage

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• Attitudes to mental health are slowly changing, there's less stigma among healthcare workers and a greater commitment to provide mental health treatment when doctors and nurses can see people do get better.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Attitude, Health, Commitment

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• The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Secret, Allies, Ends

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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• It was only after the earthquake that the health minister said mental health should be a priority and that the issue was talked about.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Health, Earthquakes, Issues

  "Voodou Priests And Doctors Are On The Frontline Of Haiti’s Mental Health Care" by Anastasia Moloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2015.

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• The impact of the earthquake on mental health was huge and unimaginably deep in people's lives. Some lost all benchmarks and references because of their great loss, we still have people coming to clinics with mental health problems related to the earthquake. They talk about the earthquake, about being under the rubble.

  Reggie Fils-Aime

  Health, Loss, Impact

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• I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small.

  E. Lockhart

  Dog, Limits, Forfeit

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 1: The Boyfriend List”, p.10, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.

  Betty Friedan

  Country, Women, Lost Youth

  The Feminine Mystique ch. 14 (1963)

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• 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.

  Edward Thorndike

  Animal, Facts, Unusual

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• Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

  E. M. Forster

  Faith, Mind, Process

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the attention of this body, if only for a few minutes today.

  Rosa DeLauro

  Believe, Issues, Troops

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• I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Issues, People, Looks

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• For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Games, Literature, Pages

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

  Angelina Jolie

  Two Sides, Different, Film

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• The way football is being played currently, that I have seen, it's dangerous. It's dangerous and it could impact their long-term mental health. You only get one brain.

  Ann McKee

  Football, Impact, Nfl

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• A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.

  Neil Gaiman

  Space, Safety, Giving

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.14, HarperCollins

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• Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

  Clint Eastwood

  Health, People, Yeah

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• It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

  Philip K. Dick

  Inspirational, Life, Reality

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Vintage PKD”, p.169, Vintage

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

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Pleasure, Proportion

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1853). “The Life and Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”

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• Many children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.

  Irwin Redlener

  Children, Stress, Home

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