Bob Rae Quotes

There's such a high stigma around talking about your feelings or insecurities because, especially for men, we don't want to show that "weakness." But I'm always like, "OK, what would you rather do: Show weakness and get better, or continue to get worse and who knows where that leads?" There's something behind the suicide rate continuing to climb year after year. Why don't we ask for help?

People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it.

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.

Not talking about mental illness is killing people. We need that to stop.

As a candidate for Director-General of the WHO, I believe there is a key role WHO needs to play to improve and advance mental health. It can help advocate for efficient resources and services - and efforts to reduce stigma - to be in place at local, national, and global levels.

The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides

A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.

I really think suicide has a branding problem because it has a tagline. It has a catch phrase, and I bet a lot of us know it. It sucks. It's really condescending. I bet we've heard it. Suicide - the coward's way out.

We don't judge people for dying in car crashes. But we do judge people when they die of suicide.

You know when you hear the 22 suicides a day it's a big part of your question. But when you hear the 22 suicides a day that should never be.

Suicide is what everyone young thinks they'll do before they get old. But they hardly ever get round to it. They just don't want to commit themselves in that way. When you're young and you look ahead, time ends in mist at twenty-five. 'Old won't happen to me', you say. But old does. Oh, old does. Old always gets you in the end.

Nothing in my life has ever made me want to commit suicide more than people's reaction to my trying to commit suicide.

Suicide is not a blot on anyone’s name; it is a tragedy

Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.

Suicide is very contagious.

The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take their own lives without deep and thoughtful reflection over a considerable period of time. I do believe strongly, however, that the right to do so is one of the most fundamental rights anyone in a free society should have. For me much of the world makes no sense, but my feelings about what I am doing ring loud and clear to an inner ear and to a place where there is no self, only calm. Love always, Wendy.

If somebody wants to shoot up and die in front of you, more power to them. The herd has a way of thinning itself out.

Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard the word shouted, screamed.

Sadness is simply something to be treated with antidepressant meds and otherwise need not be spoken of.

I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

Too many Americans who struggle with mental health illnesses are suffering in silence rather than seeking help, and we need to see to it that men and women who would never hesitate to go see a doctor if they had a broken arm or came down with the flu, that they have that same attitude when it comes to their mental health.

Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

I'll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill.