Richard J. Codey Quotes

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

When I was suffering with depression, people weren't talking about depression. It had a stigma.

Mental health, although being talked about more and more nowadays, is still extremely misunderstood and stigmatized, especially in Pakistan, where people think ignoring or hiding the issue will make it go away.

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

I grew up in a small town, and mental illness wasn't something anyone talked about.

Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.

Mental health is an area where people are embarrassed. They don't want to talk about it because somehow they feel they're a failure as a parent or, you know, they're embarrassed for their child or they want to protect their child, lots of very good reasons, but mental health, I feel, is something that you have to talk about.

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

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.

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.

I believe the biggest stigma right now, with mental health, is that a lot of men are not talking about it.

Depression is incredibly pervasive and thus important to talk about.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

We recognize incidents of metal illness, and at the same time we stigmatize people who suffer from it or seek help to deal with it.

When I announced my focus on mental health as first lady of Georgia in 1971, none but five mental health advocates in the state wanted to be involved with the issue.

Having deinstitutionalized mental health, we have not created the structure and the institutions to take care of people, to identify when there is a mental health problem, and to get the treatment to people.

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.

It's been taboo for so long to admit you had a mental health problem.

It's easier to say people are crazy than to try to figure out why.

A little whiff of a mental health issue never hurt anybody.

Mental illness, unfortunately, is an invisible disease: it's not seen or heard. For whatever reason, because of that, society has decided that if we can't see it, maybe it doesn't exist, so they want to just sweep it under the carpet or say, 'Snap out of it,' or that you're looking for attention.