Are you looking for inspirational quotes about mental health? Inspiring Lizard has got you covered! In this article we present the 55 most beautiful mental health quotes we could find. Let’s get inspired!
Mental health quotes
I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.
— Tipper Gore
Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.
— Steven Magee
I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.
— Mira Bartok, The Memory Palace
A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It’s a community space. It’s a place of safety, a haven from the world.
— Neil Gaiman
Veterans are generally reluctant to seek mental health care.
— Chuck Norris
Unfortunately, mental health is so misunderstood that some people think you have to be crazy to need to speak to a therapist.
— Nicole Curtis, Better Than New: How Saving Old Homes Saved Me
We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide.
— Luke Richardson
It is imperative for our mental health that we surround ourselves with like minded people.
— Rob Martin
Together with open conversations and greater understanding, we can ensure that attitudes for mental health change and children receive the support they deserve.
— Kate Middleton
I often get asked why I decided to spend time highlighting the mental health of children.
— Kate Middleton
Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.
— Bobby Scott
We have seen that two heads are better than one when dealing with a mental health problem.
— Kate Middleton
The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.
— Glenn Close
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.
— Roy Blunt
I have mental joys and mental health Mental friends and mental wealth I’ve a wife that I love and that loves me I’ve all but riches bodily.
— William Blake
We can have a large impact on the prevention and amelioration of abuse, drug problems, violence, mental health problems, and dysfunction in families.
— Steven C. Hayes, The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
— Steven Kassels
Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health problems have a serious economic impact on vulnerable communities, making them a priority can save lives and markedly improve people’s quality of life.
— Vikram Patel
Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
— Kate Middleton
I don’t think it is a good mental health practice to fantasize that you know the infinite thoughts of imaginary entities.
— Stefan Molyneux
It was possible that he was making some progress in his mental health condition by seeing me.
— Holly Goldberg Sloan
One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.
— Andrew Weil
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
— Louise Hart
If your mental health is sound, then when disturbances come, you will have some distress but quickly recover.
— Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
To actually accept that you have an eating disorder or a mental health issue is actually a sign of great, great strength. It is not a sign of weakness at all.
— Nigel Owens
Why don’t we learn about the mental health which affects every minute of our lives? … Where is the school for learning [about] positive mental health?
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.
— Matt Haig
From wearable sensors to video game treatments, everyone seems to be looking to technology as the next wave of innovation for mental health care.
— Thomas R. Insel
I think it’s really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death.
— Freddie Stroma
The lasting physical and mental health effects of long term very high altitude exposure appear to be remarkably similar to daily heavy smoking.
— Steven Magee, Health Forensics
I’ve got a cure for mental health issue. Spank your children more.
— Steve Bannon
If you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It’s so sad. We know what to do. We just don’t do it.
— Rosalynn Carter
A child’s mental health is just as important as their physical health and deserves the same quality of support.
— Kate Middleton
Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to legitimate buyers.
— Colleen Hanabusa
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?
— Gordon Smith
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.
— Madchen Amick
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.
— Gina Barreca
We have a mental health system that is dominated by political and hidden forces that keep us stagnated and unable to see real, lasting change.
— Tamara Hill, Mental Health In A Failed American System: What Every Parent, Family, & Caregiver Should Know
What aided the mind made the body suffer. They could choose mental health or physical health, but they could not have both.
— Rufi Thorpe, Dear Fang, With Love
Suicide and mental health problems have no boundaries.
— Santosh Kalwar
The notion that you can endanger your physical and mental health by letting strong passions go unsatisfied is a vicious falsehood.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
He was nuts. He’d scammed the quarterly mental health exam and was certifiably insane.Not that that’s ever stopped me from sleeping with anyone.
— Jordan Castillo Price, Secrets
It’s just as important to be around people that influence stable mental health as it is working towards it.
— Kierra C.T. Banks
I can understand why some people might look at me and say, ‘What’s she got to be depressed about?’ I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.
— Natalie Imbruglia
We do not have to be mental health professionals to identify the traits of the possible sociopaths among us.
— P.A. Speers, Type 1 Sociopath – When Difficult People Are More Than Just Difficult People
At the root of this dilemma is the way we view mental health in this country. Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it’s still an illness, and there should be no distraction.– Michelle Obama
— Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words
I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what’s going on all the time.
— Ronda Rousey
1 in 5 people have dandruff. 1 in 4 people have mental health problems. I’ve had both.
— Ruby Wax
I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.
— Jennifer Holliday
Guilt can interfere with our desires to move forward, to heal properly and to become a person who has the mental health and means of proper recompense.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Recovery is most often associated with some type of illness, addiction or mental health issue. I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about the struggle of getting back to where you were before the sound went out.
— Suzette R. Hinton
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.
— Vikram Patel
The presuming social view that mental health is not as serious as the media says it is, blocks progress. This too is political.
— Tamara Hill, Mental Health In A Failed American System: What Every Parent, Family, & Caregiver Should Know
Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.
— Pete Earley
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation about illnesses that affect not only individuals, but their families as well.
— Glenn Close
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.
— Matthew Quick