Madchen Amick Quotes

The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I'm very interested in how we deal with that.

You can't fix yourself out of a mental health issue. You can't wake up and say, 'Today I'm not being depressed!' It's a process to get well, but there is recovery.

I wanted to write a story about my struggles with depression and mental health. It's an issue that needs to be talked about more.

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

It's okay to talk about mental health issues. It's okay to admit that you have anxiety. It doesn't take away from your power. It's totally normal.

The response from the beginning has been really, really wonderful and positive. People have always really responded to me talking about mental health.

I will alway support anybody being vocal about their mental illness, how they're dealing with it, and how it affects them. And I'll always support people waking up and paying attention to that.

I've always been an advocate for mental health.

Mental health is something that's really important to me.

It's estimated that 16 million people in the U.S. have struggled with depression - and I include myself in that statistic. It's real, and it's not shameful, and there is help available. You can bring it to the light, you can tell the truth, you can go to a meeting, you can reach out to a friend. None of us are alone.

I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

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.

There's a stigma on the word 'therapy.' People relate it to big problems. That's something we have to change. Going to therapy can be very healthy. It can change the way you see things and treat others.

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.

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.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

I want to remove the taboo from mental illness.

Treating mental health illness is compassionate and saves money.

I have mental illness in my family. I have a lot of compassion for those people.

I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

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

I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.