Rita Mae Brown Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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.

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.

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.

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

There are many diseased minds in this country.

I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn't have too much money, then it was more likely.

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.

The likelihood is that you or someone you know closely will suffer from a mental health condition in your lifetime.

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

Mental illness affects everyone.

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

There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental illness and what it means. I do think that people are overmedicated.

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.

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.