Quotes of: Mental-health Keyword

We’d like to believe that by discussing what has occurred will change things. Until now, here’s a mental illness that must be dealt with by going to the root.

Domestic Violence-The Cure

the essential feature of the Dissociative Disorders is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity,or perception

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR

Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV

We were never supposed to live until 40. We were built to self-destruct at 30, whether from cancer or mental illness. We're all going way beyond our expiration date.

Douglas Coupland

The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the ...

Lysander Spooner

Whatever is going on inside your head has everything to do with how well you end up performing.

The Art of Mental Training: A Guide to Performance Excellence

Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental world at least, there are vast countries still very imperfectly explored

The Analysis of Mind

Mental illness turns people inwards. That’s what I reckon. It keeps us forever trapped by the pain of our own minds[...]

The Shock of the Fall

Any action is good action; do what you can from where you are and build off of that action each day.

No Limits, Mastering the Mental Edge

Our consistent thoughts become the things in our lives.

No Limits, Mastering the Mental Egde: The Class They Don't Teach You in School

If you have the right motivation, drive, and inspiration, you WILL succeed.

No Limits, Mastering the Mental Egde: The Class They Don't Teach You in School

There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life.

Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation

Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.

Pleasure

Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.

Words to inspire the winner in YOU

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

Polly Toynbee

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

Rich Lowry

In the 1830s, Dorothea Dix revolutionized the care of people with mental illness by taking them out of jails and caring for them in asylums, later known as state hospitals.

Thomas R. Insel

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.

Thomas Szasz

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

Martin H. Fischer

I was hoping that I could say stuff about mental illness that maybe people didn't know. You know, speak up for bipolar disorder and let people know a little bit more about it that they may not have known.

Eric Millegan

As an athlete, you're brought up with that mentality that you finish everything you start. If you're going to start a meal, you're going to finish it until the plate is clean. I had to change that mentality to one of where, 'I eat until I'm full and ...

Michael Strahan