The Invest in Iowa Act is a bold vision for Iowa that lowers the overall tax burden on Iowans, and invests significantly in mental health and water quality.
To show weakness, we’re told in sports, is to deserve shame. But showing weakness, addressing your mental health, is strength.
The right place for a person suffering a mental health crisis is a bed, not a police cell. And the right people to look after them are medically trained professionals, not police officers.
I’m always going to have to manage my mental health issues.
I don’t have a television in my house. I haven’t owned one in years. In truth, it’s about mental health for me. It’s hard for me to have a television in the house because I’ll just stay inside and binge-watch stuff that I don’t even want to watch. I’ve learned when I don’t have a TV, it forces me to go outside.
The best thing that I did was get myself out of an environment that was toxic to me and to my mental health. That was through retiring from football.
Veterans are generally reluctant to seek mental health care.
I’m at the point in my life where I don’t want to work as hard. Actually, I’ve had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it’s effect on one’s mental health.
It’s so important that we figure out a way of moving beyond the stigma that still exists around treatment for mental health.
You see what it is for your mental health to be in the public eye.
Throughout my career I have developed a thick skin against verbal abuse, justifying it as just ‘part of the game’ but the time has come for Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to consider regulating their channels, taking responsibility for protecting the mental health of users regardless of age, race, sex or income.
It’s absolutely crucial that we look at mental health not just through the prism of health but in a cross-cutting way.
Half of those people who experience mental health difficulties do so before the age of 14. The problems begin early – so early interventions are essential.
Metro police can’t infuse hope into those for whom hope is foreign. The algorithm does not exist that can heal the traumatized. Data-driven predictions won’t result in the delivery of mental health services.
Both casual, unthinking discrimination and deliberate, malicious homophobia erode self-confidence and undermine mental health. Both are far too common, not just in our schoolyards or online but in sporting clubs, in the outer and even in our national parliament.
I’m by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I’ve seen it save a lot of people’s lives.
Everyone says to you, ‘if you play Ophelia, you’ll end up crazy,’ but we’re all somewhere on the spectrum of mental health, and I think that if you approach it that way it’s not such an intimidating issue.
Violent felons and people with mental health problems need to be rehabilitated.
The likelihood is that you or someone you know closely will suffer from a mental health condition in your lifetime.
A child’s mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.
Mental health is just as important as physical health, but why is it that we can’t find the same access to mental health treatment as we do for physical health ailments?
People end up on the street for many different reasons – leaving care or hospital, problems with debt, unemployment, mental health, family breakup – and so the help they need is varied, too.
As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women’s mental health: employment improves it.
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.
Despite being commonplace, too many people with mental health problems still face stigma, prejudice and discrimination.
If you’re constantly striving for questions that are never going to be answered, then you’re only being detrimental to your own mental health.
Crime takes root when household budgets are unable to address the conditions that can lead to despair and violence, and government services and policies do not adequately address underemployment, poor mental health care and learning disabilities that hold young people back.
Everyone knows someone who is struggling with a mental health issue, whether it’s depression, trauma or substance abuse. It affects everyone, so we all have a stake in making sure good treatment is available.
Exercise is great for your mental health!
Rihanna has revolutionized the beauty and lingerie industries, and that has an impact on the mental health of young women, who are measured by their beauty.
I support defunding the police – particularly the militarization of our police force and reallocating those resources toward public health. And not just health care but mental health support, affordable housing, education, alternatives to incarceration, non-emergency responses to those who might be in mental distress.
Top Boy’ didn’t try to glamorise anything. It gave it to you how it was. But it also dealt with mental health, social situations, immigration.
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.
My mental health was getting really bad in the military and so the doctors decided not to renew my contract and advised me to take a break.
I believe that a child who exercises is more alert, focused, positive, has better mental health.
I see taking care of my emotional and mental health in the same way that I see taking care of a garment: After it’s been through wear and tear, it needs attention.
Ten days before I started my job at ABC News, I checked myself into a mental health hospital.
The Christmas-New Year’s holiday season can be a double-edge sword when it comes to one’s mental health.
When I left my parents’ home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn’t have what I needed there.
I am, as a father, very worried about the growing evidence of the impact of social media on children’s mental health.
My main thing is obviously mental health and well-being, and then my second passion would be politics; the third would be fashion.
We should open the conversation of mental health and start discussing it in classrooms, and among each other. Especially in the black community – that’s not something we talk about.
There is no single cause of homelessness, and vulnerable people, those with mental health problems and addictions for example, need support not punishment.
Children have to be provided a nurturing environment to grow. Sadly, in India we don’t have a robust mental health programme for children. There is also a lack of accountability in the public system.
World Health Day is a fantastic opportunity to start a conversation about work and mental health.
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about – worthy, dull. Something you should ‘have’ to read / write about.
Mental health is not a novelty; it’s part of who we are and we need to treat it as if it were a broken arm or any other kind of medical consideration.
Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women.
I really recommend it, to build a new physical relationship with yourself, and just do it on your own terms, and your own time, it can just give you a different sense of self-worth, and then help with your mental health too.
The increased calls on law enforcement to respond to substance abuse and mental health issues in their communities have added pressure on law enforcement and highlight the need to also invest in our health system and social services.
There is nothing compassionate or safe about relegating people, particularly those suffering from mental health or addiction issues, to sleep on our streets.
In black and brown communities especially, mental health is not normalized. No one talks about that kind of thing.
You certainly can’t prevent all mental health problems – factors like genetics and traumatic life events certainly play a role. But everyone can take steps to improve their mental health and prevent further mental illness.
I partnered with Headstrong because they give free and fast mental health support to our veterans who are most at risk. There is no red tape, and they get help within a day or two instead of weeks.
It’s okay to talk about mental health issues. It’s okay to admit that you have anxiety. It doesn’t take away from your power. It’s totally normal.
A lot of sportsmen get depression, all sorts of mental health issues. A lot of people retire and you don’t hear from them, but I don’t want to do that.
Some people don’t like showing any deviation from normality, but I like talking about things like that, so talking about my mental health wasn’t a big deal.
Those who are not very good at understanding mental health issues are not going to know what other people are going through in depression. You have to kind of put yourself in somebody else’s shoes.
