Mental health sayings

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◆ It's up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind.

- Steve Maraboli99

◆ About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.

- C.G. Jung99

◆ Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn't fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.

- Theodore Kaczynski99

◆ It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.

- Erich Fromm99

◆ I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.

- Rosamund Lupton99

◆ Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.

- Dean Karnazes99

◆ The problem with having problems is that ‘someone' always has it worse.

- Tiffany Madison99

◆ PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.

- Susan Pease Banitt99

◆ It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

- Sylvia Plath99

◆ If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

- Stephen Levine99

◆ The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

- Joanne Greenberg99

◆ This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.

- Cammie McGovern99

◆ What does your anxiety do? It does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but it empties today of its strength. It does not make you escape the evil; it makes you unfit to cope with it if it comes.

- Raymond Cramer99

◆ Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

- Rosamund Lupton99

◆ He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so.

- Kurt Vonnegut99