Support
Just because no one else can heal or do your inner work for you, doesn’t mean you can, should, or need to do it alone.
—Lisa Olivera
Mental Health Awareness
Not surprisingly, there has been a mismatch between the enormous impact of mental illness and addiction on the public’s health and our society’s limited commitment to addressing these problems.
—John Campo, 2017
Acceptance
We envisage a society in which mental health problems are an acceptable and, in some ways, valued part of the human experience.
—Mike Slade, Lindsay Oades, & Aaron Jarden, 2017
Awareness
Over the course of the past decade, there’s been increased willingness to recognize mental health as an essential part of one’s well-being.
—Nicole Spector, 2020
Empowerment
All stress, anxiety, depression, is caused when we ignore who we are, and start living to please others.
—Paulo Coelho, 2014
Self-Reflection
No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness.
—Elyn R. Saks, 2007
Live for the moment
The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.
—Shannon L. Alder, n.d.
Look to the future
There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.
—John Green
Thought Management
You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.
—Dan Millman
Awareness
What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, and more unashamed conversation.
—Glenn Close