Chris Gethard Quotes

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.

Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.

I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.

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.

We don't judge people for dying in car crashes. But we do judge people when they die of suicide.

You know when you hear the 22 suicides a day it's a big part of your question. But when you hear the 22 suicides a day that should never be.

I think people don't understand how intimately tied suicide is to mental illness, particularly to depressive illness and bipolar illness.

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.

We decided to speak publicly about suicide because we wanted to make a difference in other people's lives.

We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'

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

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.

Despite being commonplace, too many people with mental health problems still face stigma, prejudice and discrimination.

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

In black and brown communities especially, mental health is not normalized. No one talks about that kind of thing.

Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives of those who are in such despair as to want to end them. It is a societal illusion that suicide is rare. It is not.

The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides

Suicide is cheating the doctor out of job.

Everyone can relate to depression. It touches so many. Suicide is the leading cause of death among teenagers. Statistics show that women suffer from depression more than men, but that is probably because men don't report it as much.

The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age.

I think we need to get rid of is improving our minds and our mental health. You know, when when you suffer from depression, you go this is something that I have and I can work on it, you know? I often think of depression, though, as more of a - as more of a symptom than a cause.

I'm not disparaging suicides when I call them weak, I'm pointing out that anybody who would consider doing a thing like that needs help. I don't think a normal, mentally healthy person commits suicide.

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.