Layla Moran Quotes

Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health problems have a serious economic impact on vulnerable communities, making them a priority can save lives and markedly improve people's quality of life.

I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.

When I began my tenure as surgeon general, I did not intend to focus on emotional well-being.

We need to have mental health support and early interventions integrated into our education system from a young age.

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

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.

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

Treating mental health illness is compassionate and saves money.

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.

In the same way that our school system feels strongly about requiring vaccinations and annual physicals, I feel strongly that it is essential to add a mental health component to that annual physical.

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.

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

It is as imperative to take care of our minds as is our bodies and hence seeking help for mental illness is of paramount importance.

It's absolutely crucial that we look at mental health not just through the prism of health but in a cross-cutting way.

As a candidate for Director-General of the WHO, I believe there is a key role WHO needs to play to improve and advance mental health. It can help advocate for efficient resources and services - and efforts to reduce stigma - to be in place at local, national, and global levels.

We're going to have a very, very robust, level of performance having to do with mental health. We are losing so many great people that can be taken care of if they have proper care.

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.

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

Our job is to incarcerate offenders and not hospitalize sick people…. We are reluctant to advocate better mental help facilities within our jail as it would only attract more people in need of mental health services

No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.

Change the way we all talk to each other about our mental health.

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

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 know how to treat depression, we know how to treat mental illness, and we have not had the political will in our country to make it happen.

I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.