Mental Health Crisis Quotes

#1. The right place for a person suffering a mental health crisis is a bed, not a police cell. And the right people to look after them are medically trained professionals, not police officers.

Theresa May

#2. I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis.

Mira Bartok

#3. More than 35 percent of the children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop serious mental health problems .. The real crisis of Katrina is the hundreds of thousands of ravaged, displaced and traumatized children.

Bruce D. Perry

#4. I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

Kamisese Mara

#5. A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

Paul Romer

#6. Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on another for speaking up on a taboo subject, branding them with a label until they are rendered mute or preferably unheard.

M.B. Dallocchio

#7. Stop shying away from people. If you actually took a moment to listen to what they have to say, they might just say something that will change your life.

S.R. Crawford