- “It’s not impermanence per se, or even knowing we’re going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, the Buddha taught. Rather, it’s our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation. Our discomfort arises from all of our efforts to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment, or awakening to our true nature, to our fundamental goodness. Another word for that is freedom—freedom from struggling against the fundamental ambiguity of being human.” ― Pema Chödrön, Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change
- Seeing a therapist doesn’t mean you’re crazy, or bad, or sick. A therapist is like a… a guide. He knows the signs, the roads, the pits. He can help you find the pain inside, acknowledge it and its cause, and get past it. Steven Gould
- Depression is a liar. Anxiety is a deceiver. PTSD is a trickster. As we heal, we gain more clarity. Thema Bryant-Davis
- “There is no standard normal. Normal is subjective. There are seven billion versions of normal on this planet.” ― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive
- “Form follows thought. Your intentions have wingsWhich carry your lifeTo the very same thingsThat fill up your head.You think you’ve no choiceLike you’ve been taken captive,You obey the voiceWhich over and over says things to youIt relentlessly chattersSometimes it will spew!It’s goal to disarm you of thoughtsPure and true.It makes you a victimYou get stuck in it’s glue!And it’s all in your mind.” ― Kate McGahan
- The gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain. William Styron
- “Go where your energy is reciprocated, appreciated, & celebrated. Audit your engagements; compartmentalize & adjust accordingly.Analyze & reflect on how each person affects you – energies you’re inviting into your space/environment. Do they motivate you or keep you stagnant?” ― Cheyanne Ratnam
- The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. John Milton
- Identification with our mind causes thought to become compulsive. Eckhart Tolle
- “Medicate less and meditate more.” ― Abhijit Naskar
- “Being the people we are, and feeling the way that we do, getting excited about going somewhere new can be terrifying. Of course it is, I get it! But if you don’t travel, you’ll regret it. Your soul will forever be empty.” ― S.R. Crawford, From My Suffering: 25 Ways to Break the Chains of Anxiety, Depression & Stress
- “Take a deep breath and read. It’ll calm you.” ― Robert Dunbar
- “Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no longer a natural fact so much as a political-economic effect). In the 1960s and 1970s, radical theory and politics (Laing, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, etc.) coalesced around extreme mental conditions such as schizophrenia, arguing, for instance, that madness was not a natural, but a political, category. But what is needed now is a politicization of much more common disorders. Indeed, it is their very commonness which is the issue: in Britain, depression is now the condition that is most treated by the NHS. In his book The Selfish Capitalist, Oliver James has convincingly posited a correlation between rising rates of mental distress and the neoliberal mode of capitalism practiced in countries like Britain, the USA and Australia. In line with James’s claims, I want to argue that it is necessary to reframe the growing problem of stress (and distress) in capitalist societies. Instead of treating it as incumbent on individuals to resolve their own psychological distress, instead, that is, of accepting the vast privatization of stress that has taken place over the last thirty years, we need to ask: how has it become acceptable that so many people, and especially so many young people, are ill?” ― Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
- The more you understand your self the more inner peace you can have. Maxime Lagacé
- Anything human is mentionable, and anything mentionable is manageable. Fred Rogers
- “You are enough” ― Bobby Temps
- “The condition of our soul and the fitness of our mind can reveal cancer or vitality in our body.” ― Ross Victory, Panorama: The Missing Chapter: From the Memoir Views from the Cockpit
- When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. Friedrich Nietzsche
- “There are a lot of myths around Mental Health sufferers. People are very biased towards them. This should change. People should try to understand and not outcry them. The stigma should be erased.” ― Maria Karvouni
- “Meditation will declutter your mind from the negative emotions to make way for more positivity.” ― Shivanshu K. Srivastava
- “It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.” ― Amy Poehler
- Your trauma creates you. Naval Ravikant
- “Don’t cling to your self-concept purely because your will demands it. Demand that your environment aligns as much as possible and change what you must about yourself when the outer world can’t be changed. Mental health is about mental fluidity, mental illness stems in rigidity.” ― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness
- “Mental freedom is the product of mastery in several areas of our lives. We must master ourselves, our relationships, and our money. Mastering one without the others (or some without one) will leave us subject to an undue external influence in the area(s) that remain which will keep us bound. Freedom isn’t free, it takes a lot of hard work.” ― Sherman Rivers
- So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood. Gabrielle Bernstein (Miracles Now)
- Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. Iyanla Vanzant
- “Adversity is an essential ingredient of the human experience.” ― Asa Don Brown
- The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now. Haruki Murakami
- You’re not much more demented than the rest – you just know a lot more about what’s passing through your mind. Alain de Botton
- “Moral well-being is necessary for mental wellness.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita