Trai Byers Quotes

No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both.

If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

A lot of times, especially in the black community, where therapy is talked about, it's like, 'Just go to church.'

Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.

I never found out until I went into treatment that I was bipolar.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope fellow sufferers will know it's completely controllable. I hope I can help remove any stigma attached to it, and that those who don't have it under control will seek help with all that is available to treat it.

If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.

I would not be here now if I did not have anti-depressants.

You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist.

I was hoping that I could say stuff about mental illness that maybe people didn't know. You know, speak up for bipolar disorder and let people know a little bit more about it that they may not have known.

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.

The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.

Unfortunately, I think depression and anxiety are really hard to live with. And what people don't need is to feel bad about themselves because they decide to go on medication.

If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.

Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny, like with childhood bipolar disorder in the U.S.

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

The majority of the people in jail are suffering from mental illness.

So much progress has been made with topics like mental illness and drug abuse and sexual identity.

Therapy is not a 'white thing.' It's a clinical thing.

I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.

We must bring the issue of mental illness out into the sunlight, out of the shadow, out of the closet, deal with it, treat people, have centers where people can get the necessary help.

I love therapy. I talk about it a lot because I feel like, especially among black people, it's stigmatized.

I was going to university to study psychology and my big ambition in life was to open treatment rooms for psychotherapy.