Pat Summerall Quotes

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.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

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

People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators. At the same time, mental illness has been the common denominator in one act of mass violence after another.

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.

Mental health is an issue ailing everyone - it is so omnipresent in society, we must work towards making it better.

The difficult thing with mental illness is that there's no one to blame. You can't blame a person who's mentally ill, because they didn't ask for it! There's no choice to it.

Time to Talk is all about tackling taboos and getting the nation talking about mental health.

There are people with much bigger profiles than mine who are talking about mental illness. I am going to try to use whatever platform I have, whatever voice I have to help eliminate the stigma.

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

I have observed and taken part in some mental health first aid training, and I have met many mental health first aiders, and I am convinced that even a few hours' training can make a real difference.

Depression is a leading cause of ill health and disability, and many do not have access to mental health services and face significant social stigma around their disease.

America turns its back on the mentally ill. It likes to think it doesn't, but it does.

It can be difficult for people to talk about it, because there still is that stigma around mental illness. But I would encourage people to do that, because they'll be surprised once they do 'come out' how many other people have had similar experiences.

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

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

We honestly shouldn't be paying attention to nothing Kanye West says until he actually goes out there and gets the help we all think he needs. That's what keeps these stigmas about mental health and everything going - we act like it's a joke.

We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society - bullying, social media negativity and anxiety, gender based violence, substance abuse, stigma around issues such as maternal issues, etc., and we need to speak up about these more and get to the source of the problems.

We're going to have a very, very robust, level of performance having to do with mental health. We are losing so many great people that can be taken care of if they have proper care.

Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

And that movie was underrated - Nuts - because it deals with a terrible subject, but It's very well done.