Karl August von Hardenberg Quotes

I proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of insane persons within the Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens—chained naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.

Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did.

A judge is much more likely to see a mentally ill person than is a psychiatrist. Each year over 1 million mentally ill people are arrested

Treating mental health illness is compassionate and saves money.

There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate 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.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

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

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

Our job is to incarcerate offenders and not hospitalize sick people…. We are reluctant to advocate better mental help facilities within our jail as it would only attract more people in need of mental health services

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.

When I was a visitor to a lunatic asylum I always noticed how well the worst lunatics looked.

Public safety is too important to be left to psychiatry.

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

Our mental health system is broken, and we should fix it.

All governments could do more on mental health.

We are a system where I can tell you that nobody is doing more for behavioral health care in this country than the VA.

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.

I wasn't inspired by lunatic asylums or anything like that.

In this country, we've gotten away from institutionalizing and we've moved toward assimilating and drugging the mentally ill.

In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.

When I got to the Senate, I made overhauling our nation's mental health laws one of my top priorities.

It's like any other part of your body - your mental health gets sick, and it needs treatment.