Scott Hall Quotes

Those who become mentally ill often have a history of chronic pain.

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

I've had hundreds and hundreds of concussions, but I don't think that I have any permanent damage. A lot of my peers do.

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.

Just like everybody else, celebrities have brains and those brains get conditions - addiction, depression.

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.

As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, 'That's where all the crazy people go.' It really sort of frightened me.

I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

I believe that every human being has mental challenges.

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was never a violent, crazy person before that. Some say he was. It depends who you believe.

My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.

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

You know, ever since man had any notion that some of his other people, his colleagues, could be different, could be strange, could be severely depressed or what we now recognize as schizophrenia, he was certain that this kind of illness had to come from evil spirits getting into the body.

I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

There are many diseased minds in this country.

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

Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.

I wish my memory weren't so bad. They tell me it's from all the football and boxing and the concussions that I got.

It's just a matter of sometimes the CTE in your brain affects what happens in your life... and sometimes... it does not.

I think that there's a clinical mental illness called depression, but I believe that post-industrial America has been narcotized by progress. There's a cultural malaise - mental illness or no - that everybody suffers from at some point in their life.

We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.

I don't want to be the poster boy for head injury. I shouldn't be the poster boy for head injury. I have really tried to distance myself from that.