1,781 Quotes About Mental-health

I had brutal beginnings. I will not let the darkness in.

And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go shopping with and watch films with, the kind you go on holiday with and rescue when her car breaks down on the A1. Shortly after my diagnosis, I told her I had DID. I haven't seen her since. The stench and rankness of a socially unacceptable mental health disorder seems to have driven her away.

He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.

When you’ve gone through pain or trauma take your time to heal.Let go of what was.Be kind to yourself.Set healthy boundaries.Embrace the change.Show gratitude. - and repeat!

Language gives us the power to voice our experience, to reconnect with the world, and to change our own and other people's lives

It's critical that we exercise daily, take our vitamins, and eat a healthy diet during this life. It's the only way to live a long fulfilling life you can enjoy.

You can only do what you’re capable of at the time.

Honesty can force any dysfunction in your life to the surface. Are you in an abusive relationship? A refusal to lie to others – How did you get that bruise? – would oblige you to come to grips with this situation very quickly. Do you have a problem with drugs or alcohol? Lying is the lifeblood of addiction. If we have no recourse to lies, our lives can unravel only so far without others noticing.Telling the truth can also reveal ways in which we want to grow but haven’t.

Eating – overeating – saved me. It comforted me when I was at the mercy of grown-ups who didn't know how to give what I needed. Food was something to which I had ready access, and with it I cleverly fashioned a survival mechanism that pulled me back from the edge of insanity. – a young MacGuyver of angst and junk food.