Patty Duke Quotes

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.

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.

I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions not being all alike, a different course of treatment may be advisable for the removal of so tormenting an affliction.

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

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.

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.

Too many Americans who struggle with mental health illnesses are suffering in silence rather than seeking help, and we need to see to it that men and women who would never hesitate to go see a doctor if they had a broken arm or came down with the flu, that they have that same attitude when it comes to their mental health.

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.

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.

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

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.

Bravo can't be responsible for the mental state of every single person that comes onto their network.

Americans with mental illness deserve our understanding and they deserve excellent medical care.

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

The federal government has lost its way and largely ignored the needs of people with psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar illness.

There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.

Mental health is an area where people are embarrassed. They don't want to talk about it because somehow they feel they're a failure as a parent or, you know, they're embarrassed for their child or they want to protect their child, lots of very good reasons, but mental health, I feel, is something that you have to talk about.

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

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

All governments could do more on mental health.

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

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