Demi Lovato Quotes

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

The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health.

Physically, I'm healthy as a horse, always held up. But in the mental illness department, I got my share. It's just what I got.

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

We must bring the issue of mental illness out into the sunlight, out of the shadow, out of the closet, deal with it, treat people, have centers where people can get the necessary help.

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

I am privileged to have people around me who understand mental illnesses and mental health. However, the stigma around it is huge.

If we could end the old fashioned idea that feeling down is something to be ashamed of, something that you shouldn't burden others with, we would make our society a much happier and healthier place.

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

The attitudes towards mental health must change

As a whole part of "psychological education" it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that "adjustment" to a sick and insane environment is of itself not "health" but sickness and insanity.

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.

Please, people, do not f- with depression. It's merciless. All it wants is to get you in a room alone and kill you. Take care of yourself.

Most people live somewhere on the spectrum of anxiety and depression.

A new study found that people who are depressed have a greater risk of stroke. Well that should cheer them up.

If we were never depressed we would not be alive - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression.

Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people "crazy," we exclude them from our circle.

There's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill and we're all haunted by something, and some people manage to find a way to ride it out so that they don't wind up needing extra help. So I think that "mental illness," as a term, is garbage. Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something.

Stay strong. Depression lies.

One thing I want to clarify - that every service member, veteran, wants us to remember - is that the vast majority of people returning from service come back completely healthy. But when we do come across someone who is struggling. We have to develop a culture of open arms and acceptance so that they feel comfortable saying, "I'm a veteran. And by the way, I need little help." This is something we need to do in this country around mental health as a whole - destigmatizing mental health.

The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality.

I am not suicidal. Occasionally, like all of us, I get depressed and it was over a year ago and I had a little mini attack, well a big one ... I don't know quite why it happened but I find medication is not the answer to this.