Luciana Berger Quotes

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.

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 seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.

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

I've always been an advocate for mental health.

Trump's one liberal policy seems to be his desire to pump more funding into mental health - which I've taken the liberty of interpreting as a massive cry for help.

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.

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.

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

We recognize incidents of metal illness, and at the same time we stigmatize people who suffer from it or seek help to deal with it.

Treating mental health illness is compassionate and saves money.

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.

When I announced my focus on mental health as first lady of Georgia in 1971, none but five mental health advocates in the state wanted to be involved with the issue.

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.

Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.

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.

I hope I've contributed something to the mental health field. But I hope people will think - I've had so many wonderful opportunities, I tried to take advantage of them.

The Mental Health Reform Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in 2016. It was one of my proudest moments in Congress.

All governments could do more on mental health.

There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.

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

Time to Talk is all about tackling taboos and getting the nation talking about mental health.

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

I have observed and taken part in some mental health first aid training, and I have met many mental health first aiders, and I am convinced that even a few hours' training can make a real difference.