Mental Health Quotes - Page 17

• A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Giving, Library, Citizens

  "Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2013.

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• In the lead-up to the launch of my new book I Was Here, I’ve seen a lot of discussion about depression and suicide and mental health and YA dealing with such intense matters. What I haven’t seen discussed is kittens.

  Gayle Forman

  Suicide, Book, Matter

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Jan 30, 2015

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• We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

  Frank Zappa

  Crazy, Parent, Ifs

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• "I'm sorry I'm young," Deborah answered with a bitterness that was half prose. "We have a right to be as crazy as anyone else"

  Joanne Greenberg

  Sorry, Crazy, Half

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• 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.

  Robert Ringer

  Soul, Action, Theory

  Robert Ringer (2004). “Action!: Nothing Happens Until Something Moves”, p.261, M. Evans

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• During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health.

  Kenneth Goff

  Art, America, Fake

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• I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

  Mira Bartok

  Helping, Illness, Crisis

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• The very term ['mental disease'] is nonsensical, a semantic mistake. The two words cannot go together except metaphorically; you can no more have a mental 'disease' than you can have a purple idea or a wise space". Similarly, there can no more be a "mental illness" than there can be a "moral illness." The words "mental" and "illness" do not go together logically. Mental "illness" does not exist, and neither does mental "health." These terms indicate only approval or disapproval of some aspect of a person's mentality (thinking, emotions, or behavior).

  E. Fuller Torrey

  Wise, Mistake, Thinking

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• Few legislators who passed these mental health laws realized that (Brock) Chisholm and his associates defined mental illness as a sense of loyalty to a particular nation, a sense of loyalty to a moral code, and strict adherence to concepts of right and wrong. Chisholm has been obsessed for years with the idea that instilling concepts of right and wrong, love of country and morality in children by their parents is the paramount evil.

  John A. Stormer

  Loyalty, Country, Children

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• When the psychiatrist approves of a person's actions, he judges that person to have acted with "free choice"; when he disapproves,he judges him to have acted without "free choice." It is small wonder that people find "free choice" a confusing idea: "free choice" appears to refer to what the person being judged (often called the "patient") does, whereas it is actually what the person making the judgment (often a psychiatrist or other mental health worker) thinks.

  Thomas Szasz

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The main difference that sets our nation apart is what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic commonsense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Gun, Mass Shootings

  "CNN Newsroom" with Rosa Flores, www.cnn.com. September 22, 2013.

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• Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "critical reason and common sense." Freud for his part criticized Jung for being gullible about occult phenomena and infatuated with Oriental religions; he viewed with sardonic and unmitigated skepticism Jung's defense of religious feelings as an integral element in mental health. For Freud, religion was a psychological need projected onto culture, the child's feeling of helplessness surviving in adults, to be analyzed rather than admired.

  Peter Gay

  Religious, Children, Psychological Needs

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• ...I tried to kill myself. It was a feeble attempt, but I did. And I got put in a mental hospital for a month, and I got myself straight and worked on my mental health...it's nothing that I hide. It's nothing to be proud of or to be ashamed of. It's part of my life, you know? And I'm still here!

  Audra McDonald

  Wisdom, Health, Reality

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• What this means is that children, homemakers, executives, farmers, and long-living persons can all have high ego strength and good mental health if they possess the courage, humor, and flexibility of equilibrium between their rational and metaphoric minds.

  Bob Samples

  Children, Mean, Long

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• Mental health depends upon the maintenance of a balance within the personality between the basic human urges and egocentric wisheson the one hand and the demands of conscience and society on the other hand.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Hands, Personality, Balance

  Selma H. Fraiberg (2015). “The Magic Years: Understanding and Handling the Problems of Early Childhood”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.

  Ishmael

  Wonderful

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• 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.

  E. Fuller Torrey

  Years, Hygiene, Facts

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• In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that our police officers are getting the mental health help they need.

  Brian Lindstrom

  People, Police, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chapparal, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness. We require these patches of nature for our mental health and our spiritual resilience.

  Richard Louv

  Spiritual, Curves, Space

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.202, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Events, Said, Passive

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence.... If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity! If better ideas on mental health are to progress and spread we, as the salesmen, must lose our identity... Let us all, therefore, very secretly be 'fifth columnists.'

  John Rawlings Rees

  Family, Thinking, Ideas

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• The word soul has lost its meaning and even its plausibility.... Faith, hope and love can no longer be seen simply as virtues or graces; they are processes in flesh and blood... (the clergyman) will find that whether he wants it or not, he is also a front-line mental health worker or he will be so regarded by the specialists in mental health. It is on the pastoral role and the tasks of shepherding that the psychological disciples have the greatest impact in theological work.

  Paul Pruyser

  Past, Impact, Blood

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• Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive.

  Paul Stamets

  Environmental Health, Oysters, Mushrooms

  "The Mighty Oyster Mushroom: The Workhorse of Gourmet Fungi" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain

  Tina Louise

  Communication, Space, Brain

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• Find a gap between a trigger event and our usual conditioned response to it and by using that pause to collect ourselves and shift our response

  Sharon Salzberg

  Usual, Events, Gaps

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