131+ Best Mental Health Awareness Slogans & Quotes

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Mental Health Awareness Slogans, Taglines & Captions | World Mental Health Day

Mental health matters
Healthy mind, healthy body
Mental health is preserved wealth.
A healthy mind is an asset
Mental health is important
Mental health is the biggest wealth
To be healthy as a whole, mental wellness plays a vital role
We take care of our dental health, but not our mental health
Don’t hesitate, just communicate
Mental health is as important as physical health
A healthy mind, is the greatest treasure to find
Start talking about Mental illness!
A strong willingness can overcome mental illness
At times, not thinking anything is good for your mind
Beat your anxiety, with a therapy
Don’t be ashamed of Mental illness
We are there for you
Mental Illness: Help, don’t judge
Talk it out
Fight stigma, increase the awareness
Daily stress can leave your health in a mess
Don’t bury your emotions
Don’t ignore your mental health
Enjoy life, don’t live with strife
Exercise is good for mental health.
Fight stress, to fight mental illness
Good friends kick out mental illness
Afraid of your own mind? Get help
If you feel like life is sinking, try positive thinking!
Ignoring mental illness is a big blunder

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Let’s accept it as a medical condition and not as social stigma.
If your life has become a big mess, take time to relax and relieve some stress
Mental illness is not a choice, but recovery is.
Mental illness is not a personal failure.
Money is important, but not more then your mental health.
Never be a slave of your own thoughts
Not all wounds are visible.
Positive thinking is the key to healthy mind
Self-forgiveness is essential for self-healing.
Shape your mind to shape your future
Mental health: Share a smile, walk for a mile
Therapy helps
The battle in your mind is never-ending …Keep fighting
There is no shame in taking medication for mental illness
They say mental illness is invisible, but it can be seen in you
What love and care can do, medicines cannot
You are never alone
If mind is a warehouse, get rid of the rotten stock

Popular Quotes & Facts on Mental Health and Mental Illness

“Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.” — Alain de Botton
“There is no health without mental health.” — David Satcher
“Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent” — Elizabeth Wurtzel
“Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.” — Karl A. Menninger
“Mental health and mental balance is critical to leading a healthy life.” — Mariel Hemingway
“Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.” — Camille Paglia
“People get really irritated by mental illness.” — Maria Bamford
“Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record.” — Daniel Handler
“Mental health is one of the biggest concerns, because now police are having to handle a lot of really difficult mental health problems on the street.” — Hillary Clinton

Wise Quotes on Mental Health

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.” — Jeffrey Eugenides
“Your mind is a dangerous neighbourhood and you shouldn’t go in there alone at night” — Christiane Northrup
“The finest minds, like the finest metals, dissolve the easiest.” — Alexander Pope
“The measure of mental health is the disposition to find good everywhere.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse, and practically everyone, however “normal” his facade, is faking sanity.” — John Astin
“There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.” — Dave Barry
“Ideal mental health, like freedom, exists for one person only if it exists for all people.” — Phyllis Chesler

Emotional Quotes & Experiences on Mental Illness

“Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.” — Hannibal
“You can’t patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.” — Michael Connelly
“I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness.” — Brian Lindstrom
“It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.” — John Steinbeck
“Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.” — Lysette Anthony
“Mental illnesses are so frightening and there’s so much ignorance about them that I think it comforts people to think, ‘Oh, well, it happens to these people because they deserve it.'” — Pete Earley

Top Quotes on Creating Awareness about Mental health | Mental Illness Awareness Week | Time to Talk Day

“The attitudes towards mental health must change” — Kate Middleton
“It’s just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But as soon as you have to take medicine for your mind, it’s such a stigma behind it.” — Jennifer Lawrence
“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 Saks
“The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so, we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.” — Glenn Close
“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?” — Tom Sturridge
“Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.” — William J. Clinton
“I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.” — Gail Porter
“I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.” — Linda Hamilton

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“It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.” — Glenn Close
“Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.” — Adam Ant
“Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.” — Michelle Obama
“The people of this country desperately need to engage in an open and honest debate about mental health.” — David Satcher
“Everybody is in various states of needing to transcend something. I believe in mental health care, but when we call people “crazy,” we exclude them from our circle.” — John Darnielle
“My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.” — Jane Pauley

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“I don’t think people talk about mental illness a lot, but they need to know it’s OK to talk about how they are feeling. People are afraid of telling the truth because they think it’s going to hurt everyone around them. I’ve kept so much inside that I’ve literally lost it. I wish more people would get help when they feel like they need it– not just to look to medicine, but to the support of others.” — Michael Angelakos
“Too many Americans who struggle with mental health illnesses are suffering in silence rather than seeking help, and we need to see to it that men and women who would never hesitate to go see a doctor if they had a broken arm or came down with the flu, that they have that same attitude when it comes to their mental health.” — Barack Obama
“Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc.” — Brian Lindstrom
“I think its really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death.” — Freddie Stroma

Meaningful Quotes on Causes of Mental Illness

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” — Laurell K. Hamilton
“Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.” — Clint Eastwood
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” — Sigmund Freud
“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.” — John Lubbock
“I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.” — Tony Shalhoub
“When you talk about the mental health problems, when people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over and you’re strong and you can handle it. But a lot of people can’t handle it. And they see horror stories. They see events that you couldn’t see in a movie, nobody would believe it.” — Donald Trump
“I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.” — Ornette Coleman

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“She was like the moon — part of her was always hidden away.” — Dia Reeves
“I do a lot of work with mental health and wellness, which I also believe has a lot to do with your lifestyle as well – what you’re eating, how you’re living, what you’re thinking. How you live your life can affect your mental state.” — Mariel Hemingway
“I think that people do things for a reason – that we have mental illness, that we have genetic wiring that can get triggered by certain environmental factors.” — Karin Slaughter
“People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.” — John Forbes Nash

Motivational Quotes on Treatment and Cure of Mental Illness

“Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.” — Ishmael
“Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain function…exercise has a profound impact on cognitive abilities and mental health. It is simply one of the best treatments we have for most psychiatric problems.” — ohn Ratey
“I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.” — Tipper Gore
“The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.” — Ashley Montagu
“I practice yoga nidra to support my mental health and clear my mind space.” — Emily Carpenter
“I always say shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.” — Tammy Faye Bakker
“In Greece, we’re too poor to go to psychiatrists — we have friends instead.” — Melina Mercouri
“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” — Paul Dudley White
“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.” — Bernard Williams
“Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.” — Norman Vincent Peale

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“Exercise keeps me occupied, which is good for my mental health.” — Gail Porter
“There is nothing that can have a more powerful effect on your mental health than the spirit of thankfulness.” — George Vandeman
“Positive mental attitude is determined by you. Not others.” — Jeffrey Gitomer
“The feeling of being valuable – ‘I am a valuable person’- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.” — M. Scott Peck
“For years, mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else will love you.”…The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation” — Bruce D. Perry
“Even with mental health as well as physical health, it’s about taking responsibility and knowing that you’re part of the solution always.” — Mariel Hemingway
“I think forgiveness is a release of emotions, a release to say “No I let go”. I think it is critical for our mental health being and our physical health being and I think it is critical for our universal being as well to forgive each other.” — John Assaraf

Funny Quotes on Mental Health and Mental Illness

“A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.” — Joey Adams
“My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly too.” — Rodney Dangerfield
“The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy.” — Sigmund Freud
“I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.” — Rodney Dangerfield

List of Mental Health Awareness Days and Observances Celebrated Worldwide

Date	Day
First Monday in February	Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week
6 February	Time to Talk Day
30 March	World Bipolar Day
May-Full Month	Mental Health Month
7 May	National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day
24 May	World Schizophrenia Day
June-Full Month	PTSD (Post-traumatic stress disorder) Awareness Month
2 June	World Eating Disorders Action Day
8 August	Happiness Happens Day
30 August	National Grief Awareness Day
10 September	World Suicide Prevention Day
First Sunday in October	Mental Illness Awareness Week
October \| ( Date changes every year)	National Depression Screening Day
10 October	World Mental Health Day
17 October	World Trauma Day

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