Mental illness Quotes

An acquaintance of my husband with a long criminal record and a record of mental illness walked into a pawnshop, ... It took him about five minutes to purchase a shotgun. He handed it to Kurt on April 6, and on April 7 he was found dead. That's how easy it is.

It's not a mental illness, it's a medical condition.

A lot of these people's families have disowned them because of the mental illness. The centers are their families.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.

The majority of our patients are dually-diagnosed. They either have a mental illness and a drug or alcohol issue to deal with.

Basically if an idea sounds like a project that will help people with mental illness, and has no apparent downside, we find a way to accomplish our goal.

The question is not whether PTSD is real and serious. It's a devastating mental illness. The question is how many veterans have PTSD, and clearly our goal should be to try to address the veterans' needs and help them deal with their problems and move on in life.

That term came from the federal government. You're never going to end homelessness, or end people suffering from mental illness and substance abuse, but you can do it better than we're doing it now.

You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.

Mental illness is an equal-opportunity illness. Every one of us is impacted by mental illness. One in five adults are dealing with this illness, and many are not seeking help because the stigma prevents that.

Everybody else says these beliefs are wrong. The tunnel vision of his mental illness compels him to do what he's done.

There was no family fight just before, no mental illness. There was no apparent reason for him to take his life.

It's OK to talk about mental illness. No one should be embarrassed about it.

Often, patients show mental illness and insobriety at the same time. People say that we should hold off on treatment until a patient is clean and sober, but it doesn't work that way.

The folks who tend to stay out the longest are the most distrustful of other people. Usually some mental illness going on there.

We feel we didn't get a chance to present and document evidence of a serious mental illness. He is very ill; he is mentally ill.

People like to think mental illness means insane, when thats just not true. There has to be a social conscious-wakening around it.

It's quite unusual for people to contribute to mental illness organizations because, I think, there's still a stigma attached to the illness.

There's no doubt that mental illness works against them in the criminal process.

I think anyone who has a mental illness [and] who watched that should be offended.

Once it happens, ... I think the stigma attached to mental illness will disappear just like it did for cancer years ago.

Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching for her granddaughter to find this out.

It feels good to teach people about your mental illness. It empowers kids to not just sit by the wayside. It's more about them taking charge of their health care.

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

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