Layla Moran Quotes

If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.

People blame themselves for their own layoffs…. We ignore the effect on mental health. Every person in this society who is laid off is told that they lack value…. We undermine public health.

Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfection, where some pain is indelible.

I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

I was bullied about everything, from the way I looked to the fact that my father had been a dancer.

When I was suffering with depression, people weren't talking about depression. It had a stigma.

It's been taboo for so long to admit you had a mental health problem.

Depression is a leading cause of ill health and disability, and many do not have access to mental health services and face significant social stigma around their disease.

Negative public opinion of a conflict and the politicization of the military can negatively affect service members and contribute to PTSD.

I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.

A little whiff of a mental health issue never hurt anybody.

It's very important to me that people know that depression doesn't discriminate. A lot of people look at people who have depression and think that it's not legitimate because they're wealthy or it looks like everything seems to be doing fine. But it doesn't pick and choose. It can affect anybody in the brain, no matter how perfect your life seems.

I think for young people, there are so many issues, not only student loan debt but health care and all these various issues that I believe can impact the quality of your life.

It's hard to say you're struggling if you're a professional footballer. Other people have far greater problems.

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

America turns its back on the mentally ill. It likes to think it doesn't, but it does.

Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle when you say that they can't get along socially, that they're not good with people.

Being able to provide for me and my brother and my family, that's pressure.

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 can't pay your bills, it has a really tough effect on your mental state.

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

We honestly shouldn't be paying attention to nothing Kanye West says until he actually goes out there and gets the help we all think he needs. That's what keeps these stigmas about mental health and everything going - we act like it's a joke.

We need to start identifying the triggers that aggravate mental health issues in our society - bullying, social media negativity and anxiety, gender based violence, substance abuse, stigma around issues such as maternal issues, etc., and we need to speak up about these more and get to the source of the problems.