Victor LaValle Quotes

Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

I don't like the term 'mental illness.' I'd rather just say 'mad.' Just like I always say 'loony bin,' not 'mental hospital.'

In black and brown communities especially, mental health is not normalized. No one talks about that kind of thing.

Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.

Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure.

Because 'Call The Midwife' is a gentle drama, not a documentary, it's not appropriate to portray Sister Monica Joan's condition in all its brutal reality.

I want to show that the dividing lines between sanity and mental illness have been drawn in the wrong place.

I think Americans are weirdly puritanistic about psychopharmaceuticals. There are millions of people out there who would otherwise be dead or rocking by themselves in a corner who now lead full and normal lives because of amazing and wonderful scientific advances.

I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s.

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators. At the same time, mental illness has been the common denominator in one act of mass violence after another.

It would be an outrage against civilization if he were sent to jail for an act which was the product of a diseased brain

Treating mental health illness is compassionate and saves money.

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

Mental health is a case study in Tory failure.

I was in a mental hospital. That's all I wanna say. I don't wanna say anything more.

There isn't a right or wrong way to be depressed, anxious, or struggle with PTSD. Mental health challenges manifest differently for different people, and it's important that people see that on-screen.

The most evil and insidious thing about mental illness is that it isolates us and makes us feel so different that we think no one can possibly relate.

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.

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

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

There are lots of people with mental health disabilities, and that's just the way their life is; it's not like you see it in the movies.