Bethenny Frankel Quotes

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it, and it was in the paper. And the more I thought about it and found out about it, the more I thought it was just a terrible situation with no attention. And I've been working on it ever since.

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

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient.

If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

Our job is to incarcerate offenders and not hospitalize sick people…. We are reluctant to advocate better mental help facilities within our jail as it would only attract more people in need of mental health services

Treating mental health illness is compassionate and saves money.

The federal government has lost its way and largely ignored the needs of people with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar illness.

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.

There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.

In India, there is a huge stigma attached to one having a mental illness; this not only makes it worse for the sufferer but also for their caregivers.

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

We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.

In this country, we've gotten away from institutionalizing and we've moved toward assimilating and drugging the mentally ill.

In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.

When I got to the Senate, I made overhauling our nation's mental health laws one of my top priorities.

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.