30 Awesome Quotes About Mental Health

We have compiled some famous quotes about mental health here. These are inspiring words on how to overcome obstacles, ask for help, and stop the embarrassment. 

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Mental, psychological, emotional, and social health affects all aspects of life. Positive mental health can help you cope effectively with everyday stress, communicate well with others, make healthy choices, and lead a happier life. However, fighting mental illness and addiction can lead to a loss of a healthy mind.

Many people are personally involved in mental health topics. When a loved one encounters a mental health problem, we will be affected. It is not always clear to know what to say, how to act, or what we can do to help. Other times, we may be those who fight. Anxiety, depression, trauma-these, and other conditions have affected billions of people worldwide and throughout history. 

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Talking about mental health allows us to freely seek help, find people we can contact, and move towards health. Let us continue and learn quotes about mental health. We can work together to remove the stigma surrounding the problems many of us face!

1. “What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” – Glenn Close
2. “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” — Dan Millman
3. “The only journey is the journey within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
4. “Take your time healing, as long as you want. Nobody else knows what you’ve been through. How could they know how long it will take to heal you?” — Abertoli
5. “Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.” – Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
6. “One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” — Linda Poindexter
7. “Mental health…is not a destination, but a process. It’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.” – Noam Shpancer, PhD
8. “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.” — Charles Bukowski
9. “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.” – Fred Rogers
10. “There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.” — John Green
11. “If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, and our shortcomings instead of pretending they don’t exist, then maybe we’ll leave the world a better place than we found it.” – Russell Wilson
12. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” — Kahlil Gibran
13. “The advice I’d give to somebody that’s silently struggling is, you don’t have to live that way. You don’t have to struggle in silence. You can be un-silent. You can live well with a mental health condition, as long as you open up to somebody about it, because it’s really important you share your experience with people so that you can get the help that you need.” — Demi Lovato
14. “What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.” Glenn Close
15. “I found that with depression, one of the most important things you can realize is that you’re not alone. You’re not the first to go through it, you’re not gonna be the last to go through it,” — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
16. “Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.” Fred Rogers
17. “I understand your pain. Trust me, I do. I’ve seen people go from the darkest moments in their lives to living a happy, fulfilling life. You can do it too. I believe in you. You are not a burden. You will NEVER BE a burden.” — Sophie Turner
18. “Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.” Joubert Botha
19. “The experience I have had is that once you start talking about [experiencing a mental health struggle], you realize that actually you’re part of quite a big club.” — Prince Harry
20. “One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” Linda Poindexter
21. “Life doesn’t make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.” — Erik Erikson
22. I cannot stand the words “Get over it”. All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don’t allow other to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime – and that’s OK.” Beau Taplin
23. “Many survivors insist they’re not courageous: ‘If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.’ ‘If I were courageous, I wouldn’t be scared’… Most of us have it mixed up. You don’t start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.” ― Laura Davis
24. “She is beautiful piece of broken pottery, put back together by her own hands. And a critical world judges her cracks while missing the beauty of how she made herself whole again.” J.M. Storm
25. “Part of my identity is saying no to things I don’t want to do… I check in with myself throughout the day and I say, ‘Do I really want to do this?’ and if the answer is no, then I don’t do it. And you shouldn’t either.” — Lady Gaga
26. “You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared and anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a negative person. It makes you human.” Lori Deschene
27. “There isn’t anybody out there who doesn’t have a mental health issue, whether it’s depression, anxiety, or how to cope with relationships. Having OCD is not an embarrassment anymore – for me. Just know that there is help and your life could be better if you go out and seek the help.” — Howie Mandel
28. “Nobody can save you but yourself, and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning then this is it.” Charles Bukowski
29. “Mental health is something that we all need to talk about, and we need to take the stigma away from it. So let’s raise the awareness. Let’s let everybody know it’s OK to have a mental illness and addiction problem.” — Demi Lovato
30. “Sometimes self care is exercise and eating right. Sometimes it’s spending time with loved ones or taking a nap. And sometimes it’s watching an entire season of TV in one weekend while you lounge around in your pajamas. Whatever soothes your soul.” Nanea Hoffman