I’m intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.
There are days when we will all feel a bit down but that doesn’t mean you have bad mental health. Recognizing this and being able to chat to others about your feelings is key.
I am privileged to have people around me who understand mental illnesses and mental health. However, the stigma around it is huge.
Congress needs to give the VA every tool possible to meet the mental health challenges facing our veterans before they get to the point of danger.
I’m very passionate about mental health and wellness as part of the journey.
If our children are becoming teenagers who are abusive, have mental health issues, and are committing heinous crime, it only means that we have failed them as a society. We have failed to give them a safe, nurturing environment to ensure that they are well-balanced, useful persons in the society.
There is a direct correlation between gardening and mental health, not just to maintain good mental health but to repair it as well – that’s anything in the gamut from depression to serious brain damage, schizophrenia or autism.
Mental health is not a very easy thing to talk about in sports. It’s not perceived as very masculine.
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.
I was miserable at uni. There were months at a time when I wouldn’t leave the house unless it was to buy food. I lost a lot of friendships. I later lost jobs because of my mental health.
Many low-income children face chronic stress from nutritional deprivation or persistent violence at home or in the community. By addressing their medical, emotional and developmental needs through a comprehensive clinical care model, we can lower their risk of developing long-term physical and mental health issues.
All governments could do more on mental health.
I’ve been very vocal in the past about my mental health issues.
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.
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.
Mental health and sobriety is not a straight line, and ‘Drag Race’ is a family, and we support our family members through anything.
I think we need to make access to mental health services a priority in the obesity strategy, too.
Should one of your employees have a physical or mental health problem, I would argue that it is as much something for the employer as the individual to contend with.
Try to understand that mental health is something very personal and private.
We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.
Time to Talk is all about tackling taboos and getting the nation talking about mental health.
Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear – integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies.
Evictions cause job loss. Because it’s such a destabilizing, stressful event, they lose their footing in the labor market. It has big impacts on people’s health, especially mental health.
I’ve been out with injury, health struggles and I’ve really struggled with my mental health, so to be able to get back and be on the start line has been a challenge. I’m excited just to be there, but obviously I expect a lot of myself and I’m pretty sure other people expect me to come out and be able to still dominate.
There are so many cliches associated with mental health – such as the ‘fine line between lunacy and genius’ – which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.
I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.
Most aid agencies do not even consider proposals to treat mental health problems; those that do think of it as a minor player, overshadowed by the pressing need to save lives by treating physical illness.
I’ve always been an advocate for mental health.
Mental health isn’t all of me, but it’s a massive part of my journey and a massive part of my whole being.
Physical, emotional, and mental health needs are all interconnected, and it is essential that Whole Health programs and treatments focus on the whole veteran instead of concentrating on an isolated condition.
When I got to the Senate, I made overhauling our nation’s mental health laws one of my top priorities.
In college I had a coach who did that for me. I was struggling so much mentally with depression, anxiety, eating disorders… and he told me: ‘You have to go and talk to a doctor, you are back on track until they clear you’ and he put my mental health first.
In an age of never-ending health fads, it’s comforting to learn that one of the healthiest activities you can do has existed for millennia. It’s called reading. Yes, books are not just entertaining or educational: they can also improve your mental health.
