Health Quotes
Altitude sickness, unregulated drugs and medical gas enabled workers to become drug abusers/addicts
But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liablefor my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions
The shrinks call it Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. I call it hell. The demons are waiting in each corner, ready to drag me back to the battlefield.- Puncture Wounds (2014)
The only time it's hopeless is when you're dead! Long as you're alive, you can get better - you can make it better.
I hear a siren and, if we weren’t already in a hospital, I would have assumed they were coming for nearly everyone in this room.
While a psychiatric diagnosis can serve a purpose in treatment plans, it should not become a tool to discredit a person's disclosure of abuse.
The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!
Self-stigma refers to the state in which a person with mental illness has come to internalize the negative attitudes about mental illness and turns them against him- or herself.
I have a mental illness, but that doesn't stop me from being mentally capable.
It’s hard to imagine a more squarely on-the-nose example of demonizing mental illness than portraying a mentally ill man as a literal demon.
Mental health is usually the last place people go when they think about someone being sick.
My skin is so thin that the innocent words of others burn holes right through me.
Unfortunately, mental health is so misunderstood that some people think you have to be crazy to need to speak to a therapist.
People can't listen until they're ready. I sure couldn't. I was, like, deaf to everyone except the thoughts. They were the boss of me.
He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy
Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55
There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.
It got to the point where it became logical: if a woman was fiercely intelligent, outspoken and passionate, I’d look towards her arms for the scars. They were almost always there.
Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.
You know how they say that if you think you might be going crazy, it’s proof that you’re not? Well, it’s a lie. One of many they tell you about mental illness.
Sometimes the people around you won't understand your journey. They don't need to, it's not for them.
No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.
I had people saying 'it's all in your head'. Do you honestly think I want to feel this way?
Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.
There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.
This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.
Have you ever suddenly realized it's someone else's mood swing and you're just along for the ride?
Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication
The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is political.
My therapist told me that I over-analyze everything. I explained to him that he only thinks this because of his unhappy relationship with his mother.
This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain.
Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?
In their brief time together Slothrop forms the impression that this octopus is not in good mental health, though where's his basis for comparing?
It has been known for many years that a subset of the population cannot tolerate the radiation emitted by transmitting utility meters and sickness results in these people.
Influence creates affluence. Affluence does not create influence. Affluence makes you more of who you already are.
Wealth is a small blessing, health is a great asset, happiness is an extraordinary treasure, and life is a remarkable reward.
I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I needto see my bones or I will hate myself even more and Imight cut out my heart or take every pill that was evermade.
It's the broken that find a way, because the cracks, although deep, let out as much light as the darkness they let in
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.
..balancing time you spend with or without people is crucial for mental health.
Recovery doesn't mean putting your life on hold. Recovery means holding on so you can live your best life.
The value of a person shouldn't be decided by the judgements of other people. Kindness brings out the best in us all.
