Tipper Gore Quotes

Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the stigma is so great that they don't come forward.

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

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 illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'

It's easier to say people are crazy than to try to figure out why.

Time to Talk is all about tackling taboos and getting the nation talking about mental health.

I would never post something making fun of depression or mental health, or picking at people.

We need to do more to raise awareness of perinatal mental health illness and address the stigma that still surrounds it in our society.

I love bipolar people.

It's so important that we all speak up on mental health.

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.

Despite being commonplace, too many people with mental health problems still face stigma, prejudice and discrimination.

Not talking about mental illness is killing people. We need that to stop.

If you have physical ailments, you will get everyone's compassion, but when you have a mental ailment, you will get laughter, unfortunately. This is because it is very difficult to make out when somebody is sick and when somebody is being stupid.

Many people with mental illness suffer in silence, afraid to seek help for fear of victimisation.

The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.

If people can talk about having breast cancer, why can't people who have mental illness talk about mental illness? Until we're able to do that, we're not going to be treated with the same kind of respect for our diseases as other people.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

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

When public figures remain silent about depression, there is a cost to the rest of society. Silence contributes to the misperception that successful people do not get depressed, and it keeps the public from seeing that treatment allows many individuals to return to competitive professional lives.

In order that people who suffer from depression seek treatment without a second thought, the stigmas must further fall until we reach a point in time when that person with leukemia and that person with depression both receive the same level of sympathy and the same level of rigorous treatment. Both people deserve it.

People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty.

That's like making fun of a maniac because his brain isn't completely right, because he isn't in the norm.

Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.

Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.