Mental Problem Quotes

#1. Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?

Tom Sturridge

#2. I definitely have some kind of mental problem and I haven't pinpointed what it is.

Megan Fox

#3. It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

Rafael Nadal

#4. Many psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to entertain the idea that society as a whole may be lacking in sanity. They hold that the problem of mental health in a society is only that of the number of 'unadjusted' individuals, and not of a possible unadjustment of the culture itself.

Erich Fromm

#5. Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

Susanna Kaysen

#6. Really, Matt. You're your own worst enemy.
That's a strange thing to say to someone with a serious mental disease. Of course I'm my own worst enemy. That's the whole problem.

Nathan Filer

#7. Every problem contains a solution. The key is self-discipline and surrender of the mental habits to the Holy Spirit.

Harold Klemp

#8. Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it

Thomas Szasz

#9. Creativity is not a "thing," it's a process that happens as a proactive mental activity to a problem.

Pearl Zhu

#10. Wanting to be on television is a mental illness. Wanting to be president of the United States, wanting to be an actor - these are degrees of the same mental illness. If you need to be approved of simultaneously by more people than are in this room now, there's a problem.

Keith Olbermann

#11. Counting calories is not the answer, because eating is not the problem.

Anita Johnston

#12. No one has ever thought this: Now that I'm out of therapy and have fixed my mental problems, I think I want to be a ventriloquist.

Dana Gould

#13. Meditation increases your vitality and strengthens your intelligence ... your mental clarity and health improve. You acquire the patience and fortitude to face any problem in life. So, meditate! Only through meditation will you find the treasure you are seeking.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#14. So-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time. I have called this mental defect the Lucretius problem, after the Latin poetic philosopher who wrote that the fool believes that the tallest mountain in the world will be equal to the tallest one he has observed.

Anonymous

#15. The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

Thomas A. Edison

#16. If you don't think a mental patient has the right to bring a sawed-off shotgun to the church where his ex-girlfriend is getting married, you're part of the problem.

David Sedaris

#17. I don't have problems. I am a writer. I am the problem.

Arzum Uzun

#18. We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

Tenzin Palmo

#19. Ideas can come from anywhere and at any time. The problem with making mental notes is that the ink fades very rapidly.

Rolf Smith

#20. When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

Norman Vincent Peale

#21. The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

Matthew Quick

#22. With psychiatric medications, you solve one problem for a period of time, but the next thing you know you end up with two problems. The treatment turns a period of crisis into a chronic mental illness. - Amy Upham (203)

Robert Whitaker

#23. Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.

Paul Gascoigne

#24. it seems we've got a mental block when it comes to hypermedia in web APIs. This is a big problem, because hypermedia is the feature that makes a web API capable of handling changes gracefully.

Leonard Richardson

#25. The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.

Thomas A. Edison

#26. Researchers have proved that the more creative a person is, the more visually they think. The creative develop ways to block out verbal thoughts. They visualise ideas. They form mental pictures of their subject or problem. This enables them to see their idea.

Rod Judkins

#27. Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

E.B. White

#28. The problem that has no name-which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities-is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease.

Betty Friedan

#29. Mental illnesses are so strange. A physical problem we can understand. But when the mind works irrationally, well, by its very definition, the rational mind cannot truly relate.

Harlan Coben

#30. Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#31. Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.

Tom G. Palmer

#32. For some people, it's best for their mental health to know they have the gene for Huntington's and some time in the future they'll have a problem. But to other people, it would be a disaster.

Leroy Hood

#33. This country has a mental health problem disguised as a gun problem, and a tyranny problem disguised as a security problem.

Joe Rogan

#34. Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*

Marianne Williamson

#35. Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tomorrow. There should be extra days, buffer days, between real days.

Sarah Manguso

#36. I'm tired of having such a happy, perfect life. And that can only be a sign of mental illness. That's what I fall asleep thinking. Perhaps I really do have a serious problem.

Paulo Coelho

#37. We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind of mental slumber.

Marianne Williamson

#38. When faced with a problem, don't keep on discussing it. Go beyond the mental barrier to resolve it.

Z. Vally

#39. I have built up so much stuff , I am afraid I would cry forever, or have to go to sleep for weeks, or I would want to make some changes, and it is all just so overwhelming that we just keep going and going and going. It's a problem. It creates all kinds of illnesses of the physical and mental kind.

Elizabeth Lesser

#40. The problem with having problems is that 'someone' always has it worse.

Tiffany Madison

#41. I think I have mental problems, I think I have like weird obsessions with things, really annoying.

Kourtney Kardashian

#42. This is why if you corrected only this one problem and did nothing else, you would make major improvements in your mental, emotional, and physical functioning. We will use correct diaphragmatic breathing as the jumping-off place for all the activities that follow. If

Gay Hendricks

#43. There are no physical problems-only
mental ones.

Byron Katie

#44. Our brains are embodied - much of the problem with the debate over addiction and psychiatry more generally is a refusal to accept this and our ongoing need to see "physical," "neurological," and "psychological" as completely distinct.

Maia Szalavitz

#45. Fifty percent of the game is mental and the other 50 percent is being mental. I've got that part down, no problem.

Basil McRae

#46. The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

Stuart Chase

#47. Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery.

Stephen LaBerge

#48. Having deinstitutionalized mental health, we have not created the structure and the institutions to take care of people, to identify when there is a mental health problem, and to get the treatment to people.

Rob Portman

#49. Our mental attitude transforms a situation into either a problem or an opportunity.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

#50. Men cannot think like dogs ... [There exists] a sharp difference in the mental capacity of humans and canines. For example, a human who is given an intricate problem will spend all day trying to solve it, but a canine will have the sense to give up and do something else instead.

Corey Ford