Kimberly Guilfoyle Quotes

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

The majority of the people in jail are suffering from mental illness.

I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence.

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

One in four of us will have a mental illness at some point. That is a lot of people.

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.

In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness.

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.

I read an article somewhere that stated 1 in 4 American women will be considered clinically depressed in their lifetime. This should be more than a gold mine for pharmaceutical companies - it should be a wake-up call.

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

Our job is to incarcerate offenders and not hospitalize sick people…. We are reluctant to advocate better mental help facilities within our jail as it would only attract more people in need of mental health services

A judge is much more likely to see a mentally ill person than is a psychiatrist. Each year over 1 million mentally ill people are arrested

I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of situations, usually. One doctor observed that it was rare when people were rich to become schizophrenic. If they were poor or didn't have too much money, then it was more likely.

Having deinstitutionalized mental health, we have not created the structure and the institutions to take care of people, to identify when there is a mental health problem, and to get the treatment to people.

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

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.

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

Violent felons and people with mental health problems need to be rehabilitated.

I have observed and taken part in some mental health first aid training, and I have met many mental health first aiders, and I am convinced that even a few hours' training can make a real difference.

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.

You know mental illness is one of the biggest problems in our world.

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.

I think there's a lot of mental instability in this whole country.

America turns its back on the mentally ill. It likes to think it doesn't, but it does.

I will tell you, I feel very, very bad for Kanye West. He's not well, and that is the very foundation of everything he says.