Jerry Garcia Quotes

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

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.

Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure.

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.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

I'm not a psychiatrist.

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.

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

A judge is much more likely to see a mentally ill person than is a psychiatrist. Each year over 1 million mentally ill people are arrested

Public safety is too important to be left to psychiatry.

The state must concern itself with all institutions for those with damaged minds.

Treating mental health illness is compassionate and saves money.

The federal government has lost its way and largely ignored the needs of people with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar illness.

I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn't have too much money, then it was more likely.

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.

There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.

Our mental health system is broken, and we should fix it.

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 has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressant medication, or the nation of America itself came into being.

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

You know mental illness is one of the biggest problems in our world.

We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.

I think there's a lot of mental instability in this whole country.

There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it means. I do think that people are overmedicated.

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