Health, Fitness & Wellness: Mental Health Quotes

"I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is?"

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Writer

"But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood"

David Gest, Celebrity

"Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings"

Josh Silver, Musician

"He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug"

Tanya Tucker, Musician

"That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist"

Tanya Tucker, Musician

"At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill"

Tanya Tucker, Musician

"People die because they find living too painful"

Malcolm Fraser, Politician

"I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye"

Amy Grant, Musician

"I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know"

Al Yankovic, Comedian

"The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work"

Herbie Mann, Musician

"I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow, except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close, and I felt so lousy"

Ernie Pyle, Journalist

"I'm not really sure what people's preconceived notions are. I don't look at the gossip websites - it's unhealthy and I think it's a large part of what drives people in L.A. crazy"

Mischa Barton, Actress

"I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time"

John Forbes Nash, Jr., Mathematician

"When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important"

Andrew Shue, Actor

"But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much more severe"

Armistead Maupin, Novelist

"Humor is healing"

Brad Garrett, Actor

"There are parts of me that I keep secret even from myself. I have demons and I'd love to be able to healthily look at the demons and still be a wonderful actor and not feel I need them to create"

John Glover, Actor

"It was either therapy or die"

Mickey Rourke, Actor

"I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release"

John Forbes Nash, Jr., Mathematician

"I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism, It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations"

Gary Numan, Musician

"I think what's always been interesting to me, than the science and the criminality with this job, is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death"

George Eads, Actor

"Yoga is a life-saver"

Ione Skye, Actress

"I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide"

David Satcher, Politician

"Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause"

Jack Henry Abbott, Criminal

"Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

"The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body"

Daniel D. Palmer, Celebrity

"The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

"I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

"If you become addicted and a junkie, well, that's your fault"

Adam Jones, Musician

"Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life"

Angie Everhart, Model

"I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown"

Andy Gibb, Musician

"I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything"

Robin Quivers, Celebrity

"I keep wondering how to explain the experience of child abuse from the inside. I'm going to try to explain what my world was like when I was sexually abused. The thing you have to remember is that this was the thinking of a child"

Robin Quivers, Celebrity

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