Quotes to Ponder: Mental Health

 

Sometimes you need more than one quote to get the point across. Enjoy!

• “Mental health problems don’t define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain, but, importantly, YOU ARE NOT THE RAIN.” — Matt Haig

• “Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.”  — Erik Erikson

• “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.” — Fred Rogers

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

• “Promise me you’ll always remember — you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” — Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh

• “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill

• “Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” — Adam Ant

• “I say that publicly because I think it’s really important to take the stigma away from mental health… My brain and my heart are really important to me. I don’t know why I wouldn’t seek help to have those things be as healthy as my teeth. I go to the dentist. So why wouldn’t I go to a shrink?” — Kerry Washington

• “What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” — Glenn Close

• “I keep moving ahead, as always, knowing deep down inside that I am a good person and that I am worthy of a good life.” ― Jonathan Harnisch

• “You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared and anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a negative person. It makes you human.” — Lori Deschene

• “Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.” — Joubert Botha

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

• “Mental health affects every aspect of your life. It’s not just this neat little issue you can put into a box.” — Shannon Purser

• “I knew well enough that one could fracture one’s legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.” ― Vincent van Gogh

• “What people never understand is that depression isn’t about the outside; it’s about the inside.” ― Jasmine Warga

• “You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.” — Julian Seifter

• “Life is like a piano; the white keys represent happiness and the black show sadness. But as you go through life’s journey, remember that the black keys also create music.” — Ehssan

• “Don’t believe everything you think.”  — Unknown

• “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.”  — Dan Millman

And my favorite credited to Albert Einstein:

The definition of insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."

~ DaMarie

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