Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression.

To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't happen to me very often, but I hated it when it did. It was faulty wiring...

Third, you learn to make different explanations, called reattributions, and use them to dispute your automatic thoughts.

My sense of urgency is very simple,' said the professor, 'I've remembered that much. It's because what I have to remember has to do with time running out. And that's what anxiety is, in a lot of...

This work led cognitive therapists such as Aaron Beck, David D. Burns, and Albert Ellis to build treatment around the idea that our thoughts shape our emotions, not the other way around. By changing...

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

A middle-aged woman who looked like someone's cleaning lady, a shrieking adolescent lunatic and a talk show host with an orange face... It didn't add up. Suicide wasn't invented for people like this....

As I've been alluding to, my one saving grace is distraction. It keeps me sane. It helps me cope, considering the length of time I've been performing this job. The trouble is, who could ever replace...

Leonard and Virginia married in August 1912. Virginia was 30. Soon after her marriage she suffered another breakdown and her mental health declined sporadically over the following year, culminating in...

Just a glass of beer, a piece of dry bread - and in one moment the brain is stronger, the mind is clearer and the will is firm! Phew, how utterly petty it all is!

It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

You're not dead, but you're not alive, either. You're a wintergirl, Lia - Lia, caught in between the worlds. You're a ghost with a beat

Learn to take criticism seriously but not personally.

I have a room, which is in my brain, and it's very, very, very... untidy! There is stuff fallen everywhere. There are some very important ideas next to some very silly ones. There is a bottle of wine...

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

It might have helped us considerably to have been shown, perhaps through some simple exercises in elementary school, that we are not our thoughts, that we can watch them come and go and learn not to...

Sometimes, the hallucinations are visual and olfactory as well and make the world full of actual threats into a writhing hell of inescapable terrorization. Though many schizophrenics become curiously...

Rebuilding of the self in and after depression requires love, insight, work, and, most of all, time.

Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside.

Without keeping up a merciless guard, day and night, the variety of forward opinions in this world could easily destroy one's sanity.

The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling.

Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.

The cancer I don't have is everywhere, now.

Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by

Americans believe that alcoholism is a disease and the alcoholic a sick person who needs help and treatment. The NCA

If the comments are wrong, there is really nothing for you to be upset about. On the other hand, if the criticism is accurate, there is still no reason for you to feel overwhelmed. You're not expected...

Because of your twisted thinking, you see yourself in a trap from which there seems to be no escape. You jump to the conclusion that your problems are insoluble. Because your suffering feels...

He wasn't going to send her to any hospital. He knew that now. At a hospital they'd just start shooting her full of drugs and tell her to adjust. What they wouldn't see is that she is adjusting....