Browse 2417 quotes about Mental Health.
“You curse and spit, kicking me, shaking me, begging me for
one more sweet.
I give it to you. It’s not the flavor you wanted.”
Source: Bus 59 and a Half
“It unwound like a coil of string in his chest and he could feel it spreading to his fingertips, the dryness of his bones, the warmth of his blood. For nearly a decade, no one knew how much it hurt to be him.”
Source: Bus 59 and a Half
“Happiness" alone does not guarantee mental health and well-being. A tempering dose of disappointment- an occasional taste of frustration and learning that you do recover from it- goes a long way toward producing long-term contentment. Indeed the ability to ride out the bad times without feeling doomed is essential to survival. When happiness is not taken for granted, and when one is acquainted with its opposite it is more easily savored and has more lasting effects.”
Source: Women and Their Fathers: The Sexual and Romantic Impact of the First Man in Your Life
“Everyone has an innate capacity to bounce back from setbacks, reconnect with their passion for work, do their best and thrive no matter how dire external circumstances may seem.”
“When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness.”
Source: Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
“Everyone feels depressed, angry or frustrated at times; it’s a crossroads not a dead end.”
Source: 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People
“The human being is so complicated in some ways, and yet so simple in others. Sometimes, we need complex medication regimens. Yet, sometimes, we just need a good cry.”
“When emotions are expressed...all systems are united and made whole. When emotions are repressed, denied, not allowed to be whatever they may be, our network pathways get blocked, stopping the flow of the vital feel-good, unifying chemicals that run both our biology and our behavior.”
Source: Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine
“you look at me and cry
everything hurts
i hold you and whisper
but everything can heal”
Source: Milk and honey
“Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up”
Source: Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
“Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it.”
Source: The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
“The world would be so bitter without you.”
“I’ve known what it’s like to sit somewhere loud so you don’t have to hear yourself think.”
Source: Silentwhisper
“Healing isn’t linear, and it isn’t quiet.”
Source: One in Eight: A Breast Cancer Journey and Practical Guide for Patients, Families, and Workplaces
“Even if you've lost someone along the way, you can still gather the pieces.”
Source: Gathering The Pieces: A Memoir of Loss, Hope & Healing
“Humor disarms shame. It invites curiosity. It helps us step back from the intensity just long enough to breathe, reflect, and try something new.”
Source: The Therapist's Handbook for Healing Your Simpsons Syndrome: Unhook from Your Inner Chaos Characters with CBT, ACT, and a Little Humor
“Smiling in meetings.
Crumbling in the bathroom.
Saying ‘Good morning’ with a steady voice
and a silent wish to disappear
before the sentence ends.”
Source: Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes
“Mental health became a luxury.
Pain became ‘drama.’
And emotional collapse?
It became a trend — dressed up as a lifestyle.”
Source: Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes
“It’s not burnout.
It’s the silent collapse
of someone still breathing
only because the body
hasn’t figured out
how to stop on its own.”
Source: Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes
“It's one thing to understand what you need and mentally process the trauma you've endured. It's another thing to embody it.”
Source: Black Girls Breathing: Heal from Trauma, Combat Chronic Stress, and Find Your Freedom
“Healing gives clarity — and sometimes that clarity reveals: “I deserved not to be let go in the first place.”
“If you’re always obsessed about something out there, you’ll never become anything in there where it actually counts.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“You weren’t broken. You were surviving.”
Source: Breaking Free: A Journey from Chaos to Clarity
“Clarity doesn’t come from thinking—it comes from healing.”
Source: Breaking Free: A Journey from Chaos to Clarity
“If someone isn’t listening, stop talking. Protect your energy.”
Source: Breaking Free: A Journey from Chaos to Clarity
“One decision can change everything. I’m living proof.”
Source: Breaking Free: A Journey from Chaos to Clarity
“All the way back from when I was a little kid, I would let myself have a good cry and then say to myself, “Okay, suck it up and keep it moving.” That approach worked for me for a long time. I couldn’t know how this only meant I stored the trauma in my body—stashed it in my mind and heart to lie in wait. Keep it moving, I said. So I moved.”
Source: Matriarch: A Memoir
“I've often read the advice, wait until you're fully healed to write your story. I disagree. If we all waited, most of our stories would never get written, and those who need our stories most would never hear them.”
Source: Dissonance
“...for as long as I could remember, something hadn't felt quite right in my body, like a drawer that's off kilter inside its desk, refusing to slide smoothly in and out, catching as it opens and closes.”
Source: Dissonance
“I was hopelessly gone for Lexi Harper. She was the ocean—consuming, devastating, no hope of predicting or controlling her—and I was a helpless little piece of sea glass, thrown around in the pull of her tide, hoping to have my sharp edges smoothed by her touch.”
Source: Harper's Landing
“Healing doesn’t always sound like a breakthrough. Sometimes it whispers in small, quiet choices no one else will ever notice.”
Source: Whispers from the therapy room: What therapists think but don’t always say – and what they hope clients realize.
“So, yes, Sanctuary exists. It exists to help those heroes recover from this pain, to help them recognize themselves under these scars, to help them wake from these nightmares. But its existence should not scare you.
On the contrary, it should comfort you.
This suffering. This need for healing. It is not the mark of a madman. It is the wound of a warrior.”
Source: Heroes in Crisis
“Let me tell you. Before anything, what you need to do next is talk to these people. Hear their story. Tell yours, and understand you're not the only one who tried to do something good, and ended up doing something horrible. You're not the only one who's been hurt so bad that the hurt becomes part of you, as much as you hate it, that the hurt is you. You're not the only one who was betrayed by a friend, who's had the person they thought they could trust forever end their life. You're not the only one who has felt the madness creep in. Who wants to turn away from it all and keeps turning toward it. You're not the only one who has done some terrible things who will now forever try to make up for that harm.
You understand. Don't kill. Don't run. Do what I did. Talk. Listen. And know. As bad as it is, we're in it together.”
Source: Heroes in Crisis
“The processing, letting go and healing from an abusive / toxic relationship is an emotionally challenging detachment, especially without (proper) closure. It required a conscientious effort of personal introspection, own behaviour modification, resilience, forgiveness and acceptance to move beyond the realms of just accepting someone else's (false) sense of entitlement, lack of respect and incessant aggressive behaviour tendencies”
“Jesus is not at war with mental health professionals. You can walk hand in hand with both Jesus and a therapist. In fact, you are doing the bravest thing of all by allowing someone in who can walk you through the hard things. We were never meant to go on this journey alone.”
Source: Jesus and Therapy: Bridging the Gap Between Faith and Mental Health
“Abused children often find a way to live through abuse and cope with the aftermath of these experiences. This may result in common trauma responses: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. In adulthood, these trauma responses may continue to resurface as a way of coping with intrusive memories or feelings of shame, guilt, or anger related to the abuse.”
Source: Hope and Healing for Survivors: A Workbook for Women Who Have Experienced Childhood Sexual Abuse
“I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the abyss. Her trauma would be the boulder, an unforgiving hard ball within her. It can never be removed. It would never yield, erode, soften. It would take time, and respect for the delicate ecosystem, but she would slowly build something intricate around this boulder. The architecture she assembled encased the boulder, protected it from rolling over the cliff's edge. Every time she needed more building materials, she would have to descend the mountain and carry each brick up. It would break her back, turn her hands and feet hard with callouses, crush her spirit. But when the final tile slotted into place, the painstaking years on the brutal mountainside would be worthwhile in the way the far-reaching views of the landscape from the temple made her catch her breath. She would finally take in the sky and the sea, the colourful boats docked at the harbour below, the verdant rice paddies, and the tiny villages dotted in between the valleys. The boulder and the cliff won't be all she sees any more.”
Source: Jaded
“The most gifted healers are those who are continually and actively doing their own inner work behind the scenes.”
“I need to stop flirting with my pain,
No matter how familiar it is”
Source: Barely Awake: A Poetry Collection
“The cure for a broken heart is self-love.”
“I will ask over and over until I die why doctors, therapists, school educators, and counselors are not looking deeply at the individual in front of them and creating a treatment plan with options that heal trauma, offer tools and adaptive coping strategies to navigate their emotional life, and address underlying mental issues before placing that young person on a rapid medicalization pathway that ignores complex dynamics of their personality and experiences.”
Source: The Trans Train: A Parent's Perspective on Transgender Medicalization and Ideology
“...many people come to therapy seeking closure. Help me not to feel. What they eventually discover is that you can’t mute one emotion without muting the others. You want to mute the pain? You’ll also mute the joy.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“Displacement (shifting a feeling toward one person onto a safer alternative) is considered a neurotic defense, neither primitive nor mature. A person who was yelled at by her boss but could get fired if she yelled back might come home and yell at her dog. Or a woman who felt angry at her mother after a phone conversation might displace that anger onto her son.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“In idiot compassion, you avoid rocking the boat to spare people’s feelings, even though the boat needs rocking and your compassion ends up being more harmful than your honesty. People do this with teenagers, spouses, addicts, even themselves.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“I spend so much time trying to figure things out, chasing the answer, but it’s okay to not know.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“I’ve lost more than my relationship in the present. I’ve lost my relationship in the future. We tend to think that the future happens later, but we’re creating it in our minds every day.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“You have a breakup, but you didn’t lose a spouse. So friends assume that you’ll move on relatively quickly, and things like these concert tickets become an almost welcome external acknowledgement of your loss—not only of the person but of the time and company and daily routines, of the private jokes and references, and of the shared memories that now are yours alone to carry.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“...therapy won’t make all my problems disappear, prevent new ones from developing, or ensure that I’ll always act from a place of enlightenment. Therapists don’t perform personality transplants; they just help to take the sharp edges off. A patient may become less reactive or critical, more open and able to let people in. In other words, therapy is about understanding the self that you are. But part of getting to know yourself is to unknow yourself—to let go of the limiting stories you’ve told yourself about who you are so that you aren’t trapped by them, so you can live your life and not the story you’ve been telling yourself about your life.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“Talking can keep people in their heads and safely away from their emotions. Being silent is like emptying the trash. When you stop tossing junk into the void—words, words, and more words—something important rises to the surface. And when the silence is a shared experience, it can be a gold mine for thoughts and feelings that the patient didn’t even know existed.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
“...by Google-stalking Boyfriend I was holding on to a future that had been canceled. I was watching Boyfriend’s future unfold while I stayed locked in the past. I’d need to accept that his future and mine, his present and mine, were now separate and that all we had left in common was our history.”
Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed