I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.
The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.
I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.
Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.
I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.
I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
Mania starts off fun, not sleeping for days, keeping company with your brain, which has become a wonderful computer, showing 24 TV channels all about you. That goes horribly wrong after awhile.
Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.
I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.
You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.
I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.
I don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.
Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent
Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.
I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.
Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?
I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.
I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side.
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