Mental Health Quotes

Mental Health Quote of the day

The concept of "mental health" in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.

Mental health is an ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs

The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.

The attitudes towards mental health must change

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

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

Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

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.

Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

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

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.

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health.

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

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.

I feel that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.

Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

If we take care of our mental health like our dental health; we'll be ok.

You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.

Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.

There is no health without mental health.

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

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

We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Only in the present do things happen.

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.

Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

To think too much is a disease.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.