1,781 Quotes About Mental-health

It is beyond time to break away from punitive prohibitionist approaches that exacerbate the problem.

Di solito quello che una persona intende per "felicità" non è nient'altro che la relativa sicurezza che anche il giorno dopo non si ammazzerà.

I thought graduation was going to be the start of my life, but I felt in limbo. When was it going to be my turn? I’d fought my depression-like hell to get to graduation, someone moved the goalpost.

Depression isn’t a choice. Nobody chooses to be sad over being happy. It’s kind of a brain damage, and it’s as real as any other problem is.

Sometimes you choke on your breath, that's what untreated depression can do to you.

In lieu of letting go of our trauma and rather than healing completely, in my experience, we learn how to carry it and there are some days when it is heavier than others. Some days, I hardly know it is there, distracted as I am by present joys and excitement; while other days, the burden is cripplingly-heavy and I can hardly breathe under the weight of grief.

We can’t deny our journey. We can’t pretend we’re fine when we’re not. All we can do is own it—own our suffering.

I’m broken. We’re all broken and right now we’re all isolated within that brokenness. The cure for the loneliness is connection—connection with that broken part of ourselves and with each other—and we can’t achieve that connection while pretending we are okay. We’re not okay.

When you feel depressed, you tend to look down. Look up at the point where earthly objects meet the sky. You will feel powerful because everything within this point is your reality. You are its creator. Everything else is just shadows dancing in your head.