Acceptance Quote by Laurie E. Smith

“Many mental health professionals are drawn to the field in part to resolve their own personal struggles.”

— Gary Small

“Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“It is easy for us to delude ourselves into thinking that our notions of the healthy person are unbiased by our particular circumstances or…

— Robert Kegan

“Is a lukewarm attitude to one’s work a sign of mental health? Is a merely professional attitude the only sane approach?”

— Peter Thiel

The sad truth is that millions of people with mental illness suffer stigma and prejudice, especially at work.

— Luciana Berger

“Be dedicated to change the way in which people see mental illness, at all levels of society. If not for yourself, advocate for those…

— Germany Kent

One of the issues I think is very important, in many communities of color, there's a stigma about mental health. We find that the…

— Daayiee Abdullah

“Mental health is not the absence of struggle, but the presence of strength in managing it.”

— Wayne Chirisa

“Notice that I am treating psychotherapy as a cultural artifact that can be interpreted, rather than as a universal healing technology that has already…

— Philip Cushman

“Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends…

— Elyn R. Saks

It's absolutely crucial that we look at mental health not just through the prism of health but in a cross-cutting way.

— Luciana Berger

Mental illness doesn't choose the most talented or the smartest or the richest or the poorest. It shows no mercy and often arrives like…

— Steve Lopez