Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

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

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

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

Washington is riddled with unstable people who are either depressed or make other people depressed.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Mental illness affects everyone.

Everyone knows someone who is struggling with a mental health issue, whether it's depression, trauma or substance abuse. It affects everyone, so we all have a stake in making sure good treatment is available.

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

You don't have to be a creative maverick to have a troubled mind. You just have to be human. There is no 'us' and 'them.' No one is one hundred per cent healthy, physically or mentally.

I go in and out of mental funks all the time 'cause it comes with the territory.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; if they seem OK, then you're the one.

Before I got on full-time medication, I believed that my mental disorder was the reason I could create so much and create well, because it made me crazy. I could go to these dark places and then come out of it and just be human again.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

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.

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, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

I believe that every human being has mental challenges.

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

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.