Adam Ant Quotes

A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.

I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York.

It is important to note that most of the patients in Ohio's mental health facilities have never committed crimes. They are institutionalised because they have lost touch with reality and are having problems functioning unaided in the community.

Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.

People get really irritated by mental illness.

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.

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

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.

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.

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

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options.

They're caught where there's no way out or where you can't see out. What are you going to do about it? I don't have the answer. If I did there would be no insane asylums.

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.

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

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 sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills.

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

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.

Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

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