Better Quote by Rosalynn Carter

The medicalization of early diagnosis not only hampers and discourages preventative health-care but it also trains the patient-to-be to function in the meantime as…

— Ivan Illich

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

— John Darnielle

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

— Tipper Gore

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

Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling…

— Allen Frances

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…

— Stephanie Labbe

Any other illness, any other disease that we're faced with, there's sympathy and understanding. We get help for those. With mental illness, our go-to…

— Chris Wood

When I look at the patients that I've cared for with mental illness, I know that many of them took years to come forward…

— Vivek Murthy

Mental health can be just as important as physical health - and major depression is one of the most commonly diagnosed mental illnesses.

— Michael Greger

I'm lucky not to have suffered any severe problems with my mental health but there have been lows, like when Callum was born prematurely…

— Chris Hoy

Mental illnesses are so frightening and there's so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, 'Oh, well, it happens…

— Pete Earley

Half of those people who experience mental health difficulties do so before the age of 14. The problems begin early - so early interventions…

— Angela Rayner