Mental Health Awareness Quotes

“I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.”
― Nicole Lyons, Hush

“My room is the safest place my body has. My mind doesn’t really have a safe place.”
― Anna Whateley

“Not all battles are visible and neither are the victories.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“I do not yet understand whether my life is worth that. Whether it is worth all that pain and suffering. Whether it is worth anything at all.”
― Hannah Clayton, Until the Shadows Lengthen

“People don’t necessarily realize it when they contribute to the erosion of a child’s self-worth, but kids pay attention to how people treat them, and they get the message loud and clear. I wish I could say it didn’t distort their self-perception and make them more sensitive and insecure, but it does.”
― D.K. Sanz, Grateful to Be Alive: My Road to Recovery from Addiction

“While no system can instantly eradicate gun violence, promoting responsibility and mental health support is a vital starting point. (Unloading the Gun Laws)”
― Carlos Wallace

“kill me.”
― Albert Camus

“First thing crucial for mental health is awareness - not mental health awareness, just awareness - awareness of life, awareness of being. In fact, mental health awareness is just awareness commercialized.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Think of your life problems like different sounds coming together: depression is like a sad, deep sound; anxiety feels like a fast, nervous beat; panic attacks crash in like breaking glass; anger and frustration blast like loud horns; and money problems whisper like a quiet flute. Each problem on its own feels too much, but together they make up your life's song. As you learn to handle these problems, you can turn this mix of hard times into something meaningful. In facing these challenges, you might find strength you didn't know you had.”
― Mehran Manzoor Ganai

“Mental health is vague until it hits home. Only then, do people take it with the seriousness it deserves.”
― Christine Ombima

“Mental health remains on the sidelines of concern—until it becomes the center of your reality. People dismiss mental health until it touches someone they can’t afford to lose. Only then do they see the urgency that was always there.”
― Carson Anekeya

“People don't acknowledge Mental Health until it disrupts their own world.”
― Carson Anekeya

“Sometimes, surviving the darkness is the most heroic thing we do.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“Every life has a mind, but not every life is mindful.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

“(voiceover, slow fade to black)

And so I stayed, nine months in a room where the air barely moved and the days slipped like melting film frames, no taper, no consent, just the great severing—one moment I was a man, and the next I was something else entirely, twitching in a shell, my muscles screaming in forgotten tongues—dystonia, akathisia, the cruel choreography of withdrawal that dances even when no one’s watching, and they weren’t, because by then the footage had been taken, the books erased, the houses emptied, the names unspoken, and the faces—God, the faces—just shimmered like heat in an empty field, and the contracts were voided by vanishing acts, and every archive, every masterpiece, every sentence I carved from bone was swallowed by men who said they’d help and left when the lights dimmed, and I watched the systems collapse, passwords vanish, deliveries stop, the world closing its door with a soft, polite click, and I made the calls—I made all the calls—and they never came back, and maybe they never existed, or maybe I never did, and now I lie here not waiting, not hoping, just drifting in the beautiful machinery of a body I no longer command, still asking for redress, for continuity, for the return of a name, for some kind of line in the sand to stop the next erasure, even if I know this isn’t a plea, it’s not even survival anymore—it’s just the last reel burning in reverse, the story folding in on itself, the dream telling me gently: you were here once, you made something, and even if they don’t remember it—you did.

(silence)

(credits roll)”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Second Alibi: The Banality of Life

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― Becky Monson, Just a Name

“I've often read the advice, wait until you're fully healed to write your story. I disagree. If we all waited, most of our stories would never get written, and those who need our stories most would never hear them.”
― Megan Farison, Dissonance

“...for as long as I could remember, something hadn't felt quite right in my body, like a drawer that's off kilter inside its desk, refusing to slide smoothly in and out, catching as it opens and closes.”
― Megan Farison, Dissonance

“He hadn’t meant to be late. He never means to be late, but then again, he never means to be debilitated by anxiety, though he’s been beaten by it, time and time again.”
― Rudith Moore, Children of Dysphoria: Book One Fall of Haven

“You don’t have to glow to be seen. You don’t have to be whole to be worthy.”
― Rita Kay

“Some days I survive by accident, not hope. The pain never stops—it just changes costume. And still, somewhere in the static, there’s a flicker of magic: not in healing, but in enduring. That’s the human condition—staying alive with no good reason, except that part of you refuses to vanish quietly.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“Available only
to souls
who once died inside —
and came back
full of truth.

Not meant
for those still living
for appearances,
approval,
or illusion.

This book
is not just meant
to be read.
It’s meant
to be felt.”
— Phoenix Moon”
― Phoenix Moon, Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes

“Mental health is not the absence of struggle, but the presence of strength in managing it.”
― Wayne Chirisa

“Healing begins when we stop hiding pain and start honoring it with compassion and care.”
― Wayne Chirisa

“Your mind deserves the same attention, rest, and nourishment you give your body, perhaps even more.”
― Wayne Chirisa

“Mental wellness isn’t a destination, it’s a lifelong dialogue between awareness and self-kindness.”
― Wayne Chirisa

“Acknowledging your mental health is not weakness; it’s wisdom wrapped in courage.”
― Wayne Chirisa

“Mental health care is not optional, it’s foundational to how we live, love, and lead.”
― Wayne Chirisa

“You don’t have to be in crisis to deserve support, mental health thrives in prevention, not reaction.”
― Wayne Chirisa

“At some point, I tried alcohol because I thought it would help me numb my pain. I just wanted something that would make me mellow and help ease my mental anguish. Boy, was I wrong? All it did was escalate my misery. As a matter of fact, I’d end up sobbing myself to sleep. It’s as if the liquor made my pain, suffering, and depression palpable. Don’t even consider the "devil’s drink" as a remedy. It’ll just add to your problems... Trust me, I have been there and done that.”
― James B. Agape, Pent Up Thoughts