Anna Freud Quotes

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

Our mental health system is broken, and we should fix it.

I have one thing to say about the mental asylum. I've romanticized two things in my life, and both have fallen short. One is being in a mental asylum. Really, really not as fun as you think it is.

Everyone knows someone who is struggling with a mental health issue, whether it's depression, trauma or substance abuse. It affects everyone, so we all have a stake in making sure good treatment is available.

People get really irritated by mental illness.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

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

You know, ever since man had any notion that some of his other people, his colleagues, could be different, could be strange, could be severely depressed or what we now recognize as schizophrenia, he was certain that this kind of illness had to come from evil spirits getting into the body.

Psychiatry causes so much death.

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

I proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of insane persons within the Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens—chained naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

When I was a visitor to a lunatic asylum I always noticed how well the worst lunatics looked.

Public safety is too important to be left to psychiatry.

There are many diseased minds in this country.

Psychiatry: An Instrument of Death

It's been taboo for so long to admit you had a mental health problem.