Quotes About Awareness

I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.

A lot of people are living with mental illness around them. Either you love one or you are one.

I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.

I know what mental illness looks like, and I know that if a person is not ready to get help, they won't.

People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty.

Playing someone who has a mental illness, the responsibility to not stuff it up is really strong. You have to get it right. Not just for the people who are sufferers, but for the people who care about them - their loved ones.

Mental illness affects everyone.

I'm not a doctor, but I would assume that anything that you're doing that's harming you, and you can't stop doing it, is a sign of mental illness.

With mental health, it's not like there's a box where you're healthy and another box where you've got a mental illness. You try to stay at the healthy end of the continuum, and watch as you move, and I've been able to do that.

We know how to treat depression, we know how to treat mental illness, and we have not had the political will in our country to make it happen.

Living with mental illness is not a choice and can lead to debilitating circumstances.

I have an illness. I have a mental illness. I've accepted that now. Before, I used to beat myself up all the time, but the more you talk about it, the more it takes the power out of it.

My honesty about mental illness has helped open a door for real conversation, and I think Justin wants to continue that conversation. He has put no restrictions on me. His father couldn't. Why should he try?

Mental illness is a fact of life, like cancer or heart disease.

We need to be open about mental illness, and demand the mental health services we need.

For me, mental toughness is the ability to stay focussed in the present irrespective of what is happening at the match.

For me, how I live every day is with the kind of mentality that you're never, ever guaranteed tomorrow.

I want my kids to have a balanced view. I don't want them to grow up with a close-minded corridor-vision mentality. I want them to have a good understanding of the different sections of society.

It's like, every game you never know how a defender is going to play you. You have to be mentally focused.

Being mentally strong doesn't mean you don't experience emotions. In fact, mental strength requires you to become acutely aware of your emotions so you can make the best choice about how to respond.

I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.

Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

The difficult thing with mental illness is that there's no one to blame. You can't blame a person who's mentally ill, because they didn't ask for it! There's no choice to it.

I'm always thinking and so even if I'm not on the golf course I'm mentally thinking.