David Lidington Quotes

A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.

A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health.

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

People who fail to use their emotional intelligence skills are more likely to turn to other, less effective means of managing their mood. They are twice as likely to experience anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even thoughts of suicide.

To preserve permanent good health, the state of mind must be taken into consideration.

It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.

People don't drop me with shots on the temple.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

All the money in the world can't buy you back good health.

We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the 'mental health club' that our well-being more truly requires.

Looking good and feeling good go hand in hand. If you have a healthy lifestyle, your diet and nutrition are set, and you're working out, you're going to feel good.

A lot of women don't know how to vent and deal with emotions.

Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you're young.

My problems aren't so different from anybody else.

Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.

I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.

I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.

Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.

All the therapists would tell me was that I was the only healthy person they knew.

Dealing with chronic anxiety has taught me to better understand the nuances of mental illness and the very individual nature of it.

Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.

When it's a really dark emotional scene, you have to make the effort to shake it off, at the end of the day, before you go home to your kids and try to be a normal human being. You definitely want to make that effort to shake it off.

I would like to see a mandate for social and emotional learning absolutely mandated in every state.