Jay Hernandez Quotes

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about it was that I truly belonged there.

When I was a visitor to a lunatic asylum I always noticed how well the worst lunatics looked.

I was in a mental hospital. That's all I wanna say. I don't wanna say anything more.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside.

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

Psychiatry causes so much death.

I proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of insane persons within the Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens—chained naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

Psychiatry: An Instrument of Death

Treating mental health illness is compassionate and saves money.

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

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

I have one thing to say about the mental asylum. I've romanticized two things in my life, and both have fallen short. One is being in a mental asylum. Really, really not as fun as you think it is.

If you don't support people with mental illnesses they are more likely to develop a physical illness too and that is challenging.

I'm not worried about state parks. I'm worried about people who can't be treated because they have schizophrenia or other mental illnesses out there. I'm worried about people.

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

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.

Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.