20 Inspiring Mental Health Quotes to Break the Stigma

The advice I’d give to somebody that’s silently struggling is, you don’t have to live that way. You don’t have to struggle in silence. You can be un-silent. You can live well with a mental health condition, as long as you open up to somebody about it, because it’s really important you share your experience with people so that you can get the help that you need.

Demi Lovato

You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared and anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a negative person. It makes you human.

Lori Deschene

You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything affects everything

Hannah Baker

Mental health is something that we all need to talk about, and we need to take the stigma away from it. So let’s raise the awareness. Let’s let everybody know it’s OK to have a mental illness and addiction problem.

Demi Lovato

I was with someone recently who asked: ‘Well, don’t you think that if you do too much therapy it will take away your artistic process?’ And I told them: ‘The biggest lie that we’ve ever been sold is that we as artists have to stay in pain to create.

Katy Perry

I think it’s really important to de-stigmatize mental illness in any form. I think there’s a lot of people that are carry around guilt and shame and baggage for sh*t that doesn’t matter. Everybody is going through something, everybody has had something that they’ve had to overcome.

Mary Lambert

What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.

Glenn Close

Mental health problems don’t define who you are. They are something you experience. You walk in the rain and you feel the rain, but you are not the rain.

Matt Haig

Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Nido Qubein

You can’t control everything. Sometimes you just need to relax and have faith that things will work out. Let go a little and just let life happen.

Kody Keplinger

If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, and our shortcomings instead of pretending they don’t exist, then maybe we’ll leave the world a better place than we found it.

Russell Wilson

It doesn’t have to take over your life, it doesn’t have to define you as a person, it’s just important that you ask for help. It’s not a sign of weakness.

Demi Lovato

Everybody knows there is no such thing as normal. There is no black-and-white definition of normal. Normal is subjective. There’s only a messy, inconsistent, silly, hopeful version of how we feel most at home in our lives.

Tori Spelling

One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.

Linda Poindexte

Sometimes the people around you won’t understand your journey. They don’t need to, it’s not for them.

Joubert Botha

Your mental health is a priority. Your happiness is an essential. Your self-care is a necessity.

Healthy Place

Some of the most comforting words in the universe are ‘me too.’ That moment when you find out that your struggle is also someone else’s struggle, that you’re not alone, and that others have been down the same road.

Unknown

If we start being honest about our pain, our anger, and our shortcomings instead of pretending they don’t exist, then maybe we’ll leave the world a better place than we found it.

Russell Wilson

I cannot stand the words “Get over it.” All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don’t allow others to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime – and that’s OK.

Beau Taplin

Your illness is not your identity. Your chemistry is not your character.

Pastor Rick Warren