I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all.
You want to be happy? You want to be well? Then put your boots on.
The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.
You have more issues than Reader's Digest.
It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.
As I explored my soul, now I know I have survived schizophrenia; hearing voices, reduced social engagement, emotional expression and lack of motivation.
TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical he...
The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.
I see taking care of my emotional and mental health in the same way that I see taking care of a garment: After it's been through wear and tear, it needs attention.
Make sure your priorities line up with your values.
I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
Please don't continually say I'm paranoid.Why?It makes me paranoid.
It was hard for me to come up with something on the fly, which is why I preferred, if at all possible, not to say anything at all for fear it wasn't the right thing.
I was a kid; I had plenty more to do; I'd been through some crap but I was learning from it
In the same way that our school system feels strongly about requiring vaccinations and annual physicals, I feel strongly that it is essential to add a mental health component to that annual physical.
We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the 'mental health club' that our well-being more truly requires.
We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.
Everybody struggles with this stuff, you know. With social discomfort and grief and fitting in. People with syndromes, people with disorders, people with diagnoses, and without. People who would be cl...
I'm young, but I'm already screwing up my life. I'm smart but not enough - just smart enough to have problems.
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 th...