Rosalynn Carter Quotes

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.

All governments could do more on mental health.

Mental health is an issue ailing everyone - it is so omnipresent in society, we must work towards making it better.

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

It's estimated that 16 million people in the U.S. have struggled with depression - and I include myself in that statistic. It's real, and it's not shameful, and there is help available. You can bring it to the light, you can tell the truth, you can go to a meeting, you can reach out to a friend. None of us are alone.

The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I'm very interested in how we deal with that.

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depressed in their lifetime. This should be more than a gold mine for pharmaceutical companies - it should be a wake-up call.

I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

As far as making people feel less depressed, that, in and of itself, is a political act.

There isn't a right or wrong way to be depressed, anxious, or struggle with PTSD. Mental health challenges manifest differently for different people, and it's important that people see that on-screen.

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

I'm a mental-health advocate big time, so I think it's great when depression is a thing that's discussed out in the open, because it's still way too stigmatized.

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'm lucky to have depression less severely than a lot of people. I know some find it useful to talk about it and people are definitely doing that more. It's becoming less stigmatised.

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

I wanted to write a story about my struggles with depression and mental health. It's an issue that needs to be talked about more.

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

One day, I made a remark that I might work with people with mental illness, and somebody in the press heard it, and it was in the paper. And the more I thought about it and found out about it, the more I thought it was just a terrible situation with no attention. And I've been working on it ever since.

Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

Playing someone who has a mental illness, the responsibility to not stuff it up is really strong. You have to get it right. Not just for the people who are sufferers, but for the people who care about them - their loved ones.

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