Health, Fitness & Wellness: Mental Health Quotes

"You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity"

Lance Bass, Musician

"I used to be good friends with my depression, saying, Oh, I'm so depressed, or life is terrible"

Tony Curtis, Actor

"I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it, but in order to be funny you have to have that other side"

Parker Posey, Actress

"I'm a big believer in therapy. I'm in therapy in real life. I think anytime you can bitch and moan about your own life to someone who really doesn't care that much, and can give you an objective opinion about what you're going through, I think that's valuable"

Eric Stoltz, Actor

"I must have been heavily schizophrenic all my life. The me who hears what the other me can't play is the dominant one"

Alexis Korner, Musician

"I read a book recently by a psychiatrist who was able to interview a few serial killers and she had a thesis on how you could figure these people out. And she thinks that there are things that could tell you whether someone has the potential to do that"

Tom Araya, Musician

"I think escapism is really important"

Jordana Brewster, Actress

"I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit"

Marianne Faithfull, Musician

"They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not"

Hans Eysenck, Psychologist

"There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate"

Hans Eysenck, Psychologist

""Yield" was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988"

Jack Irons, Musician

"Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right"

Louise Fletcher, Actress

"I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome"

Rose McGowan, Actress

"After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last"

Jack Irons, Musician

"In general, certain conclusions are possible from these data. They fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients"

Hans Eysenck, Psychologist

"I'm a very emotional guy"

Donnie Yen, Actor

"I want to help people with depression understand that there is hope, so that they can get the help they need to live rich, fulfilling lives"

Tom Bosley, Actor

"I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows"

Chely Wright, Musician

"I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth"

Tatjana Patitz, Model

"I believe that the issue of mental health services for our troops deploying or returning from combat is one that demands the attention of this body, if only for a few minutes today"

Rosa DeLauro, Politician

"I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing"

Ben Vereen, Actor

"I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot"

Wayne Brady, Comedian

"When was the last time someone told you 'Look at the bright side of things' when you were depressed, and you actually paid attention to them? Maybe some people do, but I sure as hell don't"

Lev Yilmaz, Artist

"When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear"

Portia de Rossi, Actress

"We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan"

John M. McHugh, Politician

"Two weeks, maybe three. You never know with psychosomatic injuries. You have to take your time with them"

Jim Palmer, Athlete

"I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't"

Gail Porter, Celebrity

"The study also included the disturbing revelation that most of the troops who reported having mental health problems also reported that they did not seek or did not receive care for their problems"

John M. McHugh, Politician

"Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly"

Janet Malcolm, Writer

"For the next three plus years, I really was not in creative shape. That part of my brain was not functioning"

Lou Gramm, Musician

"I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it?"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not"

Tom Bosley, Actor

"I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well"

Vanilla Ice, Musician

"Jeff Bodine was saying that when he gets depressed, that he cleans house"

Tanya Tucker, Musician

""I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick""

John Hewson, Politician

"I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son"

Jai Rodriguez, Actor

"Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives"

Tom Bosley, Actor

"That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell"

Renata Adler, Journalist

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