Troy Deeney Quotes

It's hard to say you're struggling if you're a professional footballer. Other people have far greater problems.

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

There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies.

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

I want to remove the taboo from mental illness.

Change the way we all talk to each other about our mental health.

There's such a stigma around mental illness, and this idea that you're going to come off as disturbed or weak somehow by being open about these things. I've never felt embarrassed or shy talking about it; it's such an integral part of my life.

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

I'm not afraid to admit I have therapy. It's nothing to be ashamed of, and it really does help.

I'm a mental-health advocate big time, so I think it's great when depression is a thing that's discussed out in the open, because it's still way too stigmatized.

I think black men especially should go to therapy and seek out mental help, because we need it. Even if you don't think you need it, we need it.

Not a lot of people know it, but I don't have any qualms about saying it - there's a lot of mental illness that runs in my family.

Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle when you say that they can't get along socially, that they're not good with people.

I think that mental illness is something that is so real.

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.

When you have mental illness you don't have a plaster or a cast or a crutch, that let everyone know that you have the illness, so people expect the same of you as from anyone else and when you are different they give you a hard time and they think you're being difficult or they think you're being a pain in the ass and they're horrible to you. You spend your life in Ireland trying to hide that you have a mental illness.

I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand.

When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.

People get really irritated by mental illness.

People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty.

I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

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.

If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.