I’ve thought about my relationship to my body, my body dysmorphia, and what that means as someone who’s like, ‘Oh, I’m going to be on camera.’ Sometimes it makes my body dysmorphia worse, but I’ve also tried to not let my mental illness rob the joy of getting to do something I’ve always wanted to do.
I didn’t want to do a zoo show. I didn’t want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
Not talking about mental illness is killing people. We need that to stop.
Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
People don’t realize how many of the homeless are single moms, and a lot of veterans, and people with mental illness.
There are people with much bigger profiles than mine who are talking about mental illness. I am going to try to use whatever platform I have, whatever voice I have to help eliminate the stigma.
I don’t believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.
Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness.
Yes, I talk about eating disorders and you know, excessive dieting and excessive exercising can be a sign of a mental illness… but when we talk about eating disorders… the issue is not the food or the exercise, the issue is a lack of healthy conception of self. That is the issue.
We simply want gun legislation in this country that allows law-abiding citizens to still own guns or prevents people with a history of mental illness or a history of a criminal background from owning a firearm.
Mental illness, hate and anger exist everywhere, but in America too often it comes armed.
I am bipolar, and I am proud. And that is why I wanted to write a book. To shine a light on mental illness, to be vulnerable about the days I let it take control and paid dearly for it, and to tell anyone fighting a similar battle: You are not alone. You are not broken.
Once you can accept that you have a mental illness, that is when you can work on it.
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.
I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn’t see the signs in myself. I couldn’t ask for help because I didn’t know I needed help.
For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet… and hoped that they would go away.
My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.
Mental illness lives all around us every day. I’ve seen it in other family members, I’ve seen it in friends, and I’ve dealt with it myself with my own postpartum depression.
Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.
The first thing that happens to someone with a mental illness, in the throes of it, is that they lose all their self-esteem. They don’t think they fit in.
Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can’t understand what they are saying. It’s a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.
I had my job, which I loved to do, which I was really good at. I was at the top of my career, and I had it all taken away because of a mental illness.
I wrote ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ when I began to read about the growing trend in teenage mental illness. I wanted to understand the psychology behind it because it was foreign to me.
Emotional well-being is more than the absence of a mental illness. It’s that resource within each of us which allows us to reach ever closer to our full potential, and which also enables us to be resilient in the face of adversity.
When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When our minds are sick, people tend to shy away from you, be afraid, or call you outright crazy. I’m fascinated by the way society and individuals view mental illness, and most of my shorts comment on that.
People love to make comedians out to be miserable, dark, twisted people. And I just – I think a lot of people struggle with depression and mental illness and have issues and problems within their family. The mailman has it. Your neighbor has it. It’s just that comedians have a microphone.
Attorney General Becerra was the leading force behind the lawsuit to protect the Affordable Care Act. Yes, he had the audacity to maintain protections for people with pre-existing conditions and for those suffering from mental illness.
Getting to have an opportunity to tell a story that is about mental illness and how it affects one’s self and one’s community was really something that really meant a lot to me.
With mental health, it’s not like there’s a box where you’re healthy and another box where you’ve got a mental illness. You try to stay at the healthy end of the continuum, and watch as you move, and I’ve been able to do that.
Mental illness is so hard to define. It’s not like an umbrella diagnosis that everyone can fall under, and even one person can have two completely contrasting experiences from it.
In fact, people with mental illness are more likely to be the victims of violence rather than anything else. So it’s important that we not stereotype folks with mental illness.
,what saved my life was my husband. He nursed me back to health, and he continues to do that to this day. It’s not easy to be married and to have a relationship with someone with mental illness.
I’d love for mental illness to be seen in the way that other horrible illnesses are. When people get cancer, very few parents will say, ‘Oh I feel so bad for giving you so much unhealthy food over the years.’
Being a depressive should not imply danger any more than being a man or even a human should. Mental illness isn’t a them/us issue; we are all on the scale somewhere. So we must be very careful to resist ignorance and combat the stigma that leads to dangerous silence.
We need employers to have an open mind about people with mental illness, and be willing to employ people, with the right support.
I do believe that Jodi Arias shows a lot of signs of mental illness.
There’s no shame in speaking about mental illness. It’s a very common problem in today’s society, no matter if you’re playing sports or working in another field. It’s something that needs to be spoken about a lot more.
Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker… anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.
We rarely know what motivates somebody in their work, and it’s usually a particular moment in their life. For me, that moment is my brother’s incarceration and the ways in which this country has decided to neglect, abuse, and sometimes torture people with severe mental illness, especially if they’re black.
Homelessness, open air drug use and mental illness – which we all see in this city – are things we’ve been relying on the DA’s office and the jails to deal with. That’s really expensive, inhumane and ineffective.
My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion.
The sad truth is that millions of people with mental illness suffer stigma and prejudice, especially at work.
The most evil and insidious thing about mental illness is that it isolates us and makes us feel so different that we think no one can possibly relate.
We know how to treat depression, we know how to treat mental illness, and we have not had the political will in our country to make it happen.
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
Mathematicians don’t like it when they’re associated with mental illness and sort of bristle when you say that they can’t get along socially, that they’re not good with people.
Some of the brightest, most creative minds have been touched by mental illness.
The war on drugs is very, very real, and the war on helping people with mental illness is very, very real.
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