Mental Health

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

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.

I've got a cure for mental health issue. Spank your children more.

Many people are worried about my mental health. But as I've said many times, we're stronger than we think we are.

We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the 'mental health club' that our well-being more truly requires.

The drug war has been a war where the direct casualties have primarily been America's poor; America's minorities; and often, unfortunately, America's vulnerable, in terms of people with disease and addiction and mental health.

The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.

Veterans are generally reluctant to seek mental health care.

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

The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, more people will have insurance coverage and, in principle, be eligible for more care.

We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.

Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.

We are made in the image of God, and we need to put Spirit back into the equation when we want to improve our physical and our mental health.

Change the way we all talk to each other about our mental health.

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?

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.