All Quotes By Tag: Mental-health

“Dad would call it my Sisyphus toll. Push a boulder up a hill, pretending it’s okay, and come nightfall it – and I – come crashing down. But he forgets the view each time I make it to the top.”

“Anger’s like a battery that leaks acid right out of meAnd it starts from the heart ’til it reaches my outer me”

“there will always be pain.you will hold animosity in your heartand it will hurt you.do not be foolish enoughto let these times pass;trees do not hide during storms.they face torrential down pours,they dig their root deeper into the soil –you must do the same.”

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.”

“The existential psychiatrist R. D. Laing–a radical critic, like Brown, of received wisdom, and similarly inclined to see mental illness as a sane response to an insane world, even as a form of “shamanic” journey–described in one of his early books what he called the “ontologically secure” person.”

“Di solito quello che una persona intende per “felicità” non è nient’altro che la relativa sicurezza che anche il giorno dopo non si ammazzerà.”

“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.”

“The bravest journey is the one within.”

“Depression is a serious illness. It’s physically painful, debilitating. And you can’t just decide to get over it in the same way you can’t just decide to get over cancer. Sadness is a normal human condition, no different from happiness. You wouldn’t think of happiness as an illness. Sadness and happiness need each other. To exist, each relies on the other.”

“Are you aiming for perfection or happiness?”

“It’s not easy trying to stay afloat when the current keeps pulling you under.”

“So often when we are unhappy it is becasue we are taking too much responsibility or we are taking too little. Instead of being assertive and choosing clearly for ourselves, we might become aggressive (choosing for others) or passive (letting others choose for us), or passive-aggressive (choosing for others by preventing them from achieving what they are choosing for themselves).”

“Recovery is full of ups and downs.There is no such thing as a linear life.But you can always turn your setbacks into setups to come back stronger.”

“The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.”

“I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They’re worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.”