Mental Health Equality Quotes

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

There are people with much bigger profiles than mine who are talking about mental illness. I am going to try to use whatever platform I have, whatever voice I have to help eliminate the stigma.

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.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

My mom Neerja and I started this movement called Mpower. The whole idea is to break the stigma attached to mental illnesses.

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

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

Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.

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

Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental illness isn't a them/us issue; we are all on the scale somewhere. So we must be very careful to resist ignorance and combat the stigma that leads to dangerous silence.

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.

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.

You don't have to be a creative maverick to have a troubled mind. You just have to be human. There is no 'us' and 'them.' No one is one hundred per cent healthy, physically or mentally.

It is so important for young people to see characters with different mental health challenges on-screen.

I'd love for mental illness to be seen in the way that other horrible illnesses are. When people get cancer, very few parents will say, 'Oh I feel so bad for giving you so much unhealthy food over the years.'

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

I want to remove the taboo from mental illness.

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

We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal.

Many politicians, celebrities, businessmen and women, and community leaders now are open about their struggles with mental illnesses, something almost unheard of when I began. Together, we are spreading the word that mental health affects all of us and deserves our support and attention.

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

My honesty about mental illness has helped open a door for real conversation, and I think Justin wants to continue that conversation. He has put no restrictions on me. His father couldn't. Why should he try?

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

We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.