Mental Crisis Quotes

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.

I know that things get worse before they get better because that’s what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

Suicide is not a remedy.

When young people implode, we judge them rather than saying they need help.

When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist.

I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.

Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and chastened. When-ten years ago-I emerged from a bad dip into suicidal speculation, I felt utterly exhausted and yet quite fearless of ordinary dangers, vastly afraid of myself but much less scared of extraneous eventualities.

Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.

Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.

There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.

There came a point when I called my mom, and I was like, 'I need to come home. I'm not OK. I'm not good right now. My mental health isn't good.'

I can't properly explain it, but I don't mind admitting I suffered a breakdown.

I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor; they sent a priest up to talk to me and he said, ' On your mark...'

I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep.

When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.

When people are in crisis and pose a threat to themselves or others, those closest to them are often the first to see the warning signs.

There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.

There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.

There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing with it.

Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

Nobody wins when the police are sent to look after people suffering from mental health problems; vulnerable people don't get the care they need and deserve, and the police can't get on with the job they are trained to do.