Confiding in someone does not mean you are burdening them with your problems. The moment you begin to admit it to yourself or someone else, is the moment you set yourself free.
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Quotes tagged ‘Mental Health’
Look; there’s no magic cure-all or even standard for mental health, but that alone should be comforting. It’s a gentle, loving reminder of two fantastic truths. Not only are you normal and fine at a very fundamental level, but on top of that crucial, comforting fact is the bonus, knowledge that thin…
Even though you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not real.
I believe it’s time to stop pushing through the pain and start treating mental health like we would a torn hamstring.
We’re taught to push through everything. We’re taught that in the ‘real world’ at a job it wouldn’t fly, you’d still have to get up and go to work, even if you were upset, and that we’re just being prepared for the ‘real world.’ But in the ‘real world’ you get sick days. You get time off when you’re…
Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.
You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave.
Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
Depression is constantly apologizing to people you love for who you are.
To anyone out there who’s hurting—it’s not a sign of weakness to ask for help. It’s a sign of strength.
I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I’d lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was n…
Is there no way out the mind?
When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.
Some friends don’t understand this. They don’t understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you’re wonderful just the way you are. They don’t understand that I can’t remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficul…
The tapestry of my life was a ruin of unraveling threads. The brightest parts were a nonsensical madman’s weaving. And now every day was a grey stitch, laid down with an outpatient’s patience, one following the next following the next, a story in lines, like a railway track to nowhere, telling absol…
I’ve been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind.
God knows I often retire to my bed wishing (at times even hoping) that I might never wake up; and in the morning I open my eyes, see the sun once again, and am miserable.
Slowly, my feelings started to shrivel up. The few that managed to survive the constant beatings staggered around like wounded baby deer, just biding their time until they could die and join all the other carcasses strewn across the wasteland of my soul.
The fatigue I’ve gathered year after year and stored inside now heaves a muted cry of helplessness. Nothing but fatigue, rounding my shoulders, heavier than ever on this late autumn day with a useless sun, a world of unforgiving disasters. So many struggles and tragedies, so much sorrow and egotism…
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.