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50 Soothing Quotes About Mental Health That Will Help You Cope With Anything

You are a good person, I promise. 
Holly Riordan
November 29, 2016
“We’re taught to push through everything. We’re taught that in the ‘real world’ at a job it wouldn’t fly, you’d still have to get up and go to work, even if you were upset, and that we’re just being prepared for the ‘real world.’ But in the ‘real world’ you get sick days. You get time off when you’re ill, whether that be physically, emotionally or mentally.”
— Becca Martin, It’s Time To Break The Stigma Of Mental Health In Student Athletes
Tagged: Mental Health, real world, Emotional, Illness
“I believe it’s time to stop pushing through the pain and start treating mental health like we would a torn hamstring.”
— Becca Martin, It’s Time To Break The Stigma Of Mental Health In Student Athletes
Tagged: Mental Health, Pain, physical pain, mental pain
“Even though you can’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not real.”
— Becca Martin, It’s Time To Break The Stigma Of Mental Health In Student Athletes
Tagged: Mental Health, emotions, Invisible
“Mental illnesses are scary, they are serious, but there is help and there is hope. If you or someone you know is going through a tough time, do not be afraid to ask for help.”
— Ivy Allen, What It’s Really Like To Struggle With Mental Health
Tagged: help, therapy, medication, Mental Illness, Asking For Help, Hope
“My mental illnesses do not define me and they are not my fault.”
— Ivy Allen, What It’s Really Like To Struggle With Mental Health
Tagged: Fault, Blame, Identity, Mental Illness
“Look; there’s no magic cure-all or even standard for mental health, but that alone should be comforting. It’s a gentle, loving reminder of two fantastic truths. Not only are you normal and fine at a very fundamental level, but on top of that crucial, comforting fact is the bonus, knowledge that things could help.”
— Lev Novak, Mental Health Is Normal(And So Are You)
Tagged: Mental Health, normal, help, Comforting
“Confiding in someone does not mean you are burdening them with your problems. The moment you begin to admit it to yourself or someone else, is the moment you set yourself free.”
— Adrienne Blane, 7 Things We All Need To Realize About Mental Illness
Tagged: Mental Health, sharing, Communication, Caring For Others, Sharing Your Feelings
“Drinking may make the pain go away, but it doesn’t last.”
— Adrienne Blane, 7 Things We All Need To Realize About Mental Illness
Tagged: Mental Health, Drinking, Alcohol
“Waiting for someone to notice your problem will never have a positive outcome. If you are excellent at creating a façade, most people will never be aware of your struggle. Waiting on others to help means you are relying on someone to do what you cannot or are not ready to do.”
— Adrienne Blane, 7 Things We All Need To Realize About Mental Illness
Tagged: Mental Health, Waiting, Silence
“When you have a mental illness, you don’t get a manual from the doctor about how to cope. Sure, in the clinical sense, you might get an idea of what to do or anticipate but it does not always match the unique, individual experience.”
— Jamie Berube, No, A Mental Illness Is Not “All In Your Head”
Tagged: Confusion, Illness, Mental Illness, doctor, coping with mental illness, coping
“We know that we are strong. We know that we can stand up to that which scares us. Because we know that it is so much more than simply ‘all in our head.’ And we have done the bravest thing we can do by choosing to keep fighting anyway.”
— Jamie Berube, No, A Mental Illness Is Not “All In Your Head”
Tagged: Mental Health, Brave, strength, Survivor
“I think the idea of a 'mental health day' is something completely invented by people who have no clue what it's like to have bad mental health. The idea that your mind can be aired out in twenty-four hours is kind of like saying heart disease can be cured if you eat the right breakfast cereal. Mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying, 'I don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless we choose to bring a gun to school or ruin the morning announcements with a suicide.”
— David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Tagged: Mental Health, Mental Health Day, Suicide
“It's up to you today to start making healthy choices. Not choices that are just healthy for your body, but healthy for your mind.”
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Tagged: Mental Health, healthy, Mind, Body
“You're not responsible for causing it. You're not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be for a tumor.”
— Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Tagged: Mental Health, Blame, Fault, Tumor
“Having a mental disorder is not glamorous. Having a mental disorder is not a romantic walk in the park, where brooding creativity flourishes. It can be hell, and it can destroy lives.”
— Robyn Murning, Yes I Have A Mental Disorder, No I Am Not Ashamed
Tagged: Creativity, Romanticized, Mental Disorder, Mental Illness
“I have come to realize that any person who rejects me because of a chronic illness is not someone I want in my life. It is not the disorder or me that people are so put off by – it is what the external world has defined my disorder to be.”
— Robyn Murning, Yes I Have A Mental Disorder, No I Am Not Ashamed
Tagged: Rejection, Relationships, Society, Chronic Illness
“My disorder isn’t a means to an end, a method of manipulation, or a way to demand the attention of those around me. My disorder is just that: an illness of the brain, a chemical imbalance totally out of my control. Just like someone with a chronic physical illness, I won’t be 'cured.'”
— Robyn Murning, Yes I Have A Mental Disorder, No I Am Not Ashamed
Tagged: manipulation, Attention, Chemicals, Mental Disorder, Mental Illness, Imbalance
“I have to remember that feelings won’t kill me. But running from them can.”
— Zara Barrie, 8 Mental Health Resolutions For The Girl Who Suffers From Anxiety Or Depression
Tagged: Mental Health, Running, Feelings, Escape
“You know why we struggle? Because we’re wildly creative, out-of-the-box, complicated, gorgeously imperfect girl creatures.”
— Zara Barrie, 8 Mental Health Resolutions For The Girl Who Suffers From Anxiety Or Depression
Tagged: imperfect, Creative, Struggle, Girl Power, Self love
“I want people to feel like they can talk to me in a real way and know that I will truly listen, that I’m rooting for them and even if I don’t know them, I really f*cking love them.”
— Zara Barrie, 8 Mental Health Resolutions For The Girl Who Suffers From Anxiety Or Depression
Tagged: Mental Health, Loved, Listen, Not Alone
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
— Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
Tagged: Mental Health, Sympathetic, Hurting, Pain
“I will be stronger than my sadness.”
— Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
Tagged: Mental Health, strength, Sadness
“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”
— Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
Tagged: Mental Health, Sadness, mysterious, Depression
“It is a hard cycle to conquer. The body is working against you. And because of this, you feel even more despair. Which only amplifies the imbalance. It takes uncommon strength to live with these things. But I have seen that strength over and over again.”
— David Levithan, Every Day
Tagged: Mental Health, strength, Despair
“Not everything is known about the human brain but, the causes for mental illness are thought to be genes and environment. Causes are not some fault, weakness, lack of willpower, or character flaw of the individual.”
— Sandy Smith, 7 Things To Remember about Mental Health
Tagged: willpower, Weakness, Flaws, environment, Mental Illness
“My depression became the ultimate tool in restoring and strengthening my faith. It didn’t occur to me when I was praying for death that I should have prayed for a renewed life. God has restored me and showed me all the wonderful things I shut out while I was wallowing in misery.”
— Deianira Fabi, This Is How Depression Made My Faith Stronger
Tagged: Mental Health, Depression, Faith, God
“We are not completely hopeless; I know there are days when all hope seems lost but trust me when I say that everything will eventually fall into its rightful places.”
— Deianira Fabi, This Is How Depression Made My Faith Stronger
Tagged: Mental Health, Hope, Trust
“Depression tries to trick you into hating yourself.”
— Kirsten Corley, The Ugly Truth Behind A ‘Pretty’ Face With Depression
Tagged: Depression, tricks, Lies
“Depression is strength. Depression is someone who fights back. Depression is someone who does not stay down. Depression is someone who knows how to bring light to every situation that may seem dark. Depression is getting up every single day and simply trying again.”
— Kirsten Corley, The Ugly Truth Behind A ‘Pretty’ Face With Depression
Tagged: Depression, strength, fighter
“I’m tired of people telling me to ‘stop thinking negatively’ and to ‘just let it go’ and ‘stop trying to control everything’ because I can’t. People need to understand that anxiety is a mental health disorder, and it can’t just be turned off.”
— Elizabeth Weinberger, My Anxiety Isn’t ‘Quirky’ — It’s Exhausting
Tagged: Mental Health, Uncontrollable, Negative, Anxiety