Mental Health Promotion Quotes

Why aren't we talking about it in health classes in school? That's just as important as learning about physical health and nutrition. Why aren't we learning about our minds and our mental health and mental illnesses? I just think that it's something that very much needs to go hand in hand.

We should aim for every workplace to be a place which encourages good mental health.

Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

When I began my tenure as surgeon general, I did not intend to focus on emotional well-being.

The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.

I'm a big proponent of having a mental health component go along with whatever the physical realities are.

I think we need to make access to mental health services a priority in the obesity strategy, too.

A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.

I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.

We need to have mental health support and early interventions integrated into our education system from a young age.

The point of a mental health first aider is to be a champion for good mental health in the workplace, to provide a safe port-of-call for anyone wanting to talk about their mental health, and to offer signposting to available expert advice and professional services.

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.

It's absolutely crucial that we look at mental health not just through the prism of health but in a cross-cutting way.

Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health problems have a serious economic impact on vulnerable communities, making them a priority can save lives and markedly improve people's quality of life.

We'd like to put an end to SoCal Uncensored, but I really want to spend more time with Bury the Drug Free Bear. I think he's going to be really big.

In the same way that our school system feels strongly about requiring vaccinations and annual physicals, I feel strongly that it is essential to add a mental health component to that annual physical.