Cognitive Distress Quotes

When I believed my thoughts I suffered.

I can't stop thinking like this.

Pain is the mind. It's the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind.

Try not to think too often, you'll only hurt yourself

In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.

Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.

It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind?

I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.