The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology o...
I can't answer you in a nutshell. We wouldn't fit unless we saw the same shrink.
We all talk to ourselves. Those we call mad just talk a little louder.
We're saying the story doesn't end here, that the air in your lungs is there for a reason.
I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity.
Be who you are. Do what you can. Embrace the journey.
They're simply seeking an interlude from emotional pain and searing mental agony, a sleep from which they'll awaken to discover they're the person they always wanted to be.
There are few things more destructive than thoughts believed without question.
I used my mental illness as a springboard to the rest of my life.
The word, 'issues,' is perhaps a misnomer, a gross understatement, or a pale and withered description for very real psychological illnesses and emotional losses. Nevertheless, "post-adoption issues" i...
This is the dysfunction talking. This is the disease talking. This is how much I miss you talking. This is the deepest blue, talking, talking, always talking to you.
A healthy society begins with healthy individuals.
With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care.
Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health problems have a serious economic impact on vulnerable communities, making them a priority can save liv...
Because this is my life, the only one I get. And if it's a choice between a life Albilitoled, or a life full of Life... well, that's not really a choice at all.
Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression.
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
What happens is my mind starts to go in circles, thinking and thinking, and then I can't sleep. And once a couple of days go by, if you haven't slept, you start to get sick. You can't eat. You start t...
The drug war has been a war where the direct casualties have primarily been America's poor; America's minorities; and often, unfortunately, America's vulnerable, in terms of people with disease and ad...
We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.