Mood Regulation Quotes

When I'm in a bad mood, I feel better listening to someone else who sounds like they're in a bad mood. That was especially true when I was a kid, and I was mad at my mom or dad for whatever reason.

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

I don't do it often, but I do cry. I also laugh a lot; people tell me I'm funny and I do like to laugh.

Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk, which is responsible for digging up depressing front-page stories.

And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.

I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.

Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.

Cocoa boosts brain serotonin. Almost every single antidepressant aims at either enhancing serotonin or keeping it in the brain longer. Chocolate or cocoa does that very well.

Emotions matter. They influence all aspects of our lives - how we live, work, and play - from the decisions we make and how we communicate. Emotions also influence our overall health and well being.

More than anything, the weed really helped with my mental state, because marijuana works on the brain. And if anything, it soothes the brain.

I feel differently immediately when I start to put weight on. I don't like that sluggish, blunted disposition that I have when that happens.

Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!

My Bandcamp had a lot of bad and good music, but I relied on that to sort my feelings. My sadness will always be there, even in the happiness.

I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined.

I think psychology still has a sway over everything we do, but music, in and of itself, is the therapy.

There are a few things that deal with passion. There's Prozac.

Some people play best when they're frustrated and mad. I play my best when I'm happy. I really, truly do.

Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.

The moment of the print button for biology is nearing. Effectively, this could also mean that in a not-too-distant future, smart pharmacology will permit us to receive a continuous supply of antidepressants or neuroenhancers every time our dopamine level drops.

I'm a pretty emotional gal.

Generally I don't listen to sad songs if I'm sad. I listen to happy songs.