Luciana Berger Quotes

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

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

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

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

No parent, family member, or friend should be told that treatment isn't available for their loved one. By establishing a dedicated and stable fund for mental health, we will give hope to so many who are suffering in silence.

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.

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

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.'

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.

Change the way we all talk to each other about our mental health.

Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.

The Mental Health Reform Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in 2016. It was one of my proudest moments in Congress.

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

There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.

The response from the beginning has been really, really wonderful and positive. People have always really responded to me talking about mental health.

I've always been an advocate for mental health.

Trump's one liberal policy seems to be his desire to pump more funding into mental health - which I've taken the liberty of interpreting as a massive cry for help.

As a candidate for Director-General of the WHO, I believe there is a key role WHO needs to play to improve and advance mental health. It can help advocate for efficient resources and services - and efforts to reduce stigma - to be in place at local, national, and global levels.

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

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 know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

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.

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