Mental Struggles Quotes

I'm sure I'm one of those undiagnosed people with social anxiety.

If I went to a psychiatrist, it would be a long session. I've always thought that I do have a number of issues that probably need dealing with, because I am quite odd in some ways.

Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.

I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' when I began to read about the growing trend in teenage mental illness. I wanted to understand the psychology behind it because it was foreign to me.

I'm always going to have an addictive personality.

Onscreen, babies and animals are my inspiration. They're so alive and there and not messed up in the head the way I am.

Oh yeah, I've been in therapy in and out of my whole life.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

I believe that every human being has mental challenges.

I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it was creating a false history. When I did finally share the problems I was having, I was shocked - not only by the support that was given to me, but also by the incredible amount of people who admitted they struggled with the same thing.

I was a psycho in college.

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

You should never look at somebody and say, 'I wish I had their life,' because you never really know what struggles they're going through.

I have existential worries inside of me, but I don't always know how to express them all the time.

Some of the brightest, most creative minds have been touched by mental illness.

I got some bad ideas in my head.

This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn't see the signs in myself. I couldn't ask for help because I didn't know I needed help.

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.

The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

I wanted to write a story about my struggles with depression and mental health. It's an issue that needs to be talked about more.

There are so many people who have eating disorders or who body shame themselves every day or have some sort of insecurity, and I feel like I have a direct reach to some of those people.

I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels.

Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.