Iain McGilchrist Quotes

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

I think there's a lot of mental instability in this whole country.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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.

If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.

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

I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as an adult, but I don't remember a time when I didn't have them. Back in the 1960s, when I was growing up, my symptoms didn't have a name, and you didn't go to the doctor to find out.

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.

I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.

One in six people suffer depression or a chronic anxiety disorder. These are not the worried well but those in severe mental pain with conditions crippling enough to prevent them living normal lives.

People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.

The vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

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

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

Washington is riddled with unstable people who are either depressed or make other people depressed.

There are many diseased minds in this country.

Having deinstitutionalized mental health, we have not created the structure and the institutions to take care of people, to identify when there is a mental health problem, and to get the treatment to people.

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

Mental health, although being talked about more and more nowadays, is still extremely misunderstood and stigmatized, especially in Pakistan, where people think ignoring or hiding the issue will make it go away.

Mental illness is a fact of life, like cancer or heart disease.

Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressant medication, or the nation of America itself came into being.

A little whiff of a mental health issue never hurt anybody.