Wendy Williams Quotes

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

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

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

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

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

Mental illness affects everyone.

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.

Most people have been touched by the battles of mental illness in some way or another. It's either going on in their families or next door to them, or they know people who have experienced it.

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

Depression is incredibly pervasive and thus important to talk about.

People get really irritated by mental illness.

Mental health is such a complex thing and so difficult to diagnose. What is a mental problem? Who does have mental problems? What's the difference between mental problems and depression and sadness?

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 vast majority of people who have mental illness problems never hurt anybody.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

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 want to remove the taboo from mental illness.

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

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

When you read about it, you realize that mental illness is so prevalent. People didn't always have the right terms for it, but most families have had a brush with it.

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.

The likelihood is that you or someone you know closely will suffer from a mental health condition in your lifetime.

There's such a stigma around mental illness, and this idea that you're going to come off as disturbed or weak somehow by being open about these things. I've never felt embarrassed or shy talking about it; it's such an integral part of my life.

Mental illness is a fact of life, like cancer or heart disease.