Rosalynn Carter Quotes

It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on college campuses is exactly that reason. It's terribly important to talk to students about knowing these things in advance.

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

The biggest advice I can give loved ones who are supporting someone navigating a newly diagnosed mental illness is patience, patience, and patience.

When I look at the patients that I've cared for with mental illness, I know that many of them took years to come forward and tell somebody that they were in pain and that they needed help.

It is as imperative to take care of our minds as is our bodies and hence seeking help for mental illness is of paramount importance.

It's so important that we figure out a way of moving beyond the stigma that still exists around treatment for mental health.

It's like any other part of your body - your mental health gets sick, and it needs treatment.

Treating mental health illness is compassionate and saves money.

I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

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

It's not a giant thrill to hear someone give you the label 'manic-depressive,' but to me I was so relieved. What I was suffering from had a name and could be treated.

People with visions should go to the doctor.

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.

A lot of people are living with mental illness around them. Either you love one or you are one.

When I was diagnosed, I believed my illness would be my great, lifelong weakness. Bipolar disorder was to be my impenetrable prison, and I would be locked up with it in a castle Princess Toadstool style. Thinking there was no way out, I let it consume me.

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

All governments could do more on mental health.

I hope that people who don't believe depression is a real thing will stop calling people crazy, because that's dismissive and not a medical diagnosis.

There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.

I know what it's like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.

You need community support. You're pretty defeated when you're laid low with a mental illness. It's a frightening place to be, and to get up and be able to stand and to move forward and to start functioning again, you need so much support. You need to feel you're not alone.

Everyone has some sort of connection to mental illness.

While the circumstances of any one situation are unique, it is clear that many families could have been helped if they had found it easier to talk openly about mental health challenges in the home.

I want to work with faith-based leaders to address the negative attitudes that are still too often associated with mental illness, attitudes that hold people back from getting the help that they need.