Luciana Berger Quotes

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

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.

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.

Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure.

Psychiatrists don't solve anything from one day to the next.

I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission.

Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options.

If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.

You're not a nutcase if you want to go see a psychiatrist.

I'm not a psychiatrist.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

There is no such thing as mental illness, hence also no such thing as psychotherapy.

I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.

We expect well-informed treatment for cancer or heart disease; it matters no less for depression.

There is no fun in psychiatry. If you try to get fun out of it, you pay a considerable price for your unjustifiable optimism.

Veterans are generally reluctant to seek mental health care.

People tend to look at mental health differently than physical health. If someone tears their ACL, we don't expect them to run 30 yards for a touchdown. They need to be treated and have the time to rest and heal, It's the same thing for mental health.

I think we need to make access to mental health services a priority in the obesity strategy, too.

Insurance companies, government agencies, and the pharmaceutical industry all push for mental health care that is brief, intermittent, and focused on quick fixes, despite the fact that many people struggle with emotional difficulties that can only be addressed over time using special psychodynamic skills.

My mother suffers mental health problems and has a learning deprivation.

The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mental illnesses, and the mentally ill person has only one.

Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.

There isn't anybody out there who doesn't have a mental health issue, whether it's depression, anxiety, or how to cope with relationships. Having OCD is not an embarrassment anymore - for me. Just know that there is help and your life could be better if you go out and seek the help.