Quotes About Mental health

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.

I couldn't worry about anyone else but myself and my health.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health.

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

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

If we take care of our mental health like our dental health; we'll be ok.

Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.

All healthy men have thought of their own suicide

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

We are particularly interested in the mental health programs and policies that support our troops and their families before, during, and after deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Big Brother is on the march. A plan to subject all children to mental health screening is underway, and the pharmaceuticals are gearing up for bigger sales of psychotropic drugs.

[Our children] have been taken away from us by the psychiatric mental-health system. They've been taken away by the educational system, by the government, and by many different forces.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

Our prisons and our jails are now our mental health institutions.

Drugging out symptoms does not solve the problem, it helps us ignore it - until the vehicle breaks down.

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it's the ultimate hissy fit.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.