Robert Sapolsky Quotes

Time to Talk is all about tackling taboos and getting the nation talking about mental health.

When I was suffering with depression, people weren't talking about depression. It had a stigma.

I'm lucky to have depression less severely than a lot of people. I know some find it useful to talk about it and people are definitely doing that more. It's becoming less stigmatised.

Not talking about mental illness is killing people. We need that to stop.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

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

Mental health is an area where people are embarrassed. They don't want to talk about it because somehow they feel they're a failure as a parent or, you know, they're embarrassed for their child or they want to protect their child, lots of very good reasons, but mental health, I feel, is something that you have to talk about.

Depression is a leading cause of ill health and disability, and many do not have access to mental health services and face significant social stigma around their disease.

It's estimated that 16 million people in the U.S. have struggled with depression - and I include myself in that statistic. It's real, and it's not shameful, and there is help available. You can bring it to the light, you can tell the truth, you can go to a meeting, you can reach out to a friend. None of us are alone.

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I'm very interested in how we deal with that.

People take the mickey out of mental health, but it is very delicate.

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.

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet... and hoped that they would go away.

I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.

Those who are not very good at understanding mental health issues are not going to know what other people are going through in depression. You have to kind of put yourself in somebody else's shoes.

Mental health, although being talked about more and more nowadays, is still extremely misunderstood and stigmatized, especially in Pakistan, where people think ignoring or hiding the issue will make it go away.

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.

We must make sure the stigma is removed around mental health and commanders must make it clear on a consistent basis that their door is open for everyone. Servicemembers need to know that command is there for them, to offer assistance however and wherever needed.

It's so important that we all speak up on mental health.

Everyone knows someone who is struggling with a mental health issue, whether it's depression, trauma or substance abuse. It affects everyone, so we all have a stake in making sure good treatment is available.

We honestly shouldn't be paying attention to nothing Kanye West says until he actually goes out there and gets the help we all think he needs. That's what keeps these stigmas about mental health and everything going - we act like it's a joke.

I grew up in a small town, and mental illness wasn't something anyone talked about.

I think that mental illness is something that is so real.