Franklin Graham Quotes

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.

Washington is riddled with unstable people who are either depressed or make other people depressed.

There is too much unhappiness in football, no?

People get really irritated by mental illness.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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

A lot of times, people think that it doesn't make sense for people to be depressed when they have everything, a loving husband, a successful career, fame and fortune. I wanted to make this point that profound despair can strike anybody.

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.

I guess I'm struck all the time by how outrageously wrong life is. There are times I can't stand to read the newspapers. It makes me insane.

Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.

It's hard not to get depressed when you pay attention to the world and how strangely and corrupt the people in it sometimes behave.

If we weren't all crazy, we'd just go insane.

The more people have, the less content they seem to be. In America, the cultural expectation that we're to be happy all the time and our children are to be happy all the time is toxic, and I think that really gets in the way of emotional well-being.

There are many diseased minds in this country.

If you want to be depressed every day, there's plenty of material. The world is crazy.

Shutting out the depression strengthens it. While you hide from it, it grows.

I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try to put me down in some way or another, or the president. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering.

I really see that socio-economic constraints and pressure contribute to our mental health in a big way. You come to realize that it's all mental health.

This is a sick business. It's so sad.

Isn't it fun to be nuts? Isn't it fun to be crazy?

In my mind, depression is, like all non-communicable diseases, a physiologically expressed condition which is profoundly influenced by our social and cultural environments. Depression is a global crisis not only because it is common and universal, but because the vast majority of affected people suffer in silence or receive inappropriate care.

If a kid is born into a tough situation with no means of dealing with it, you end up with kids who are mentally ill and have no way of reaching out.

To me poverty, mental health, and addictions don't sound like criminal justice problems. They sound to me like a social justice problem.

Mental illness, unfortunately, is an invisible disease: it's not seen or heard. For whatever reason, because of that, society has decided that if we can't see it, maybe it doesn't exist, so they want to just sweep it under the carpet or say, 'Snap out of it,' or that you're looking for attention.

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