Quotes of: Mental-health Keyword

I co-sponsored the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Act to improve access to mental health services for people in the criminal justice system. This bill would give law enforcement officers the tools they need to identify and respond to mental ...

Roy Blunt

Parents, families, and caregivers are a “minority” group in the mental health system. This population is hungry for knowledge, direction, and peace of mind. The first step toward these things is embracing truth about our “fallen” mental healt...

Mental Health In A Failed American System: What Every Parent, Family, & Caregiver Should Know

Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?

Tom Sturridge

The process of reforming the mental health system never includes the complaints that families and caregivers have regarding a need for increased access to resources, treatment, education, and financial support. Reform has continued to ignore the basi...

Mental Health In A Failed American System: What Every Parent, Family, & Caregiver Should Know

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

Diane Abbott

Suicide and mental health problems have no boundaries.

Santosh Kalwar

We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.

Luke Richardson

The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is political.

Mental Health In A Failed American System: What Every Parent, Family, & Caregiver Should Know

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.

Roy Blunt

We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see real, lasting change.

Mental Health In A Failed American System: What Every Parent, Family, & Caregiver Should Know

1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I've had both.

Ruby Wax

I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.

Cory Booker

TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

Tom Petty

People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.

Frank Bruno

A lot of people believe that mental illness does not affect our children within the school system. But the truth is that a lot of bullying stems from untreated or poorly treated mental and behavioral health problems.

Mental Health In A Failed American System: What Every Parent, Family, & Caregiver Should Know

I know how important good mental health care can be because I personally benefited from it.

Tipper Gore

Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.

Gail Porter

One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.

Andrew Weil

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

Louise Hart

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.

Neil Gaiman

We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the 'mental health club' that our well-being more truly requires.

Pico Iyer