Matt Haig Quotes

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

Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so.

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.

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

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.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

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

Treating mental health illness is compassionate and saves money.

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.

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

In India, there is a huge stigma attached to one having a mental illness; this not only makes it worse for the sufferer but also for their caregivers.

It's so important that we figure out a way of moving beyond the stigma that still exists around treatment for mental health.

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

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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.

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.

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.

Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.

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

Americans with mental illness deserve our understanding and they deserve excellent medical care.

No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.

When I announced my focus on mental health as first lady of Georgia in 1971, none but five mental health advocates in the state wanted to be involved with the issue.

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.

We know how to treat depression, we know how to treat mental illness, and we have not had the political will in our country to make it happen.