Everybody can talk about family members who have mental health problems, and there is rarely a family you can find that hasn't experienced mental illness.

The choices we make can enhance or diminish our mental health.

The problem now is that often, mental health problems are not recognized until late, ... We want to make sure that we bring the best treatment to bear in this system. We want to make sure that we continue to research.

I think we're ready to move from an environment of blame and stigmatization when it comes to mental health problems,

I think the history is such that we underestimate the mental health problems, ... As people see what they consider sort of a hopeless situation - bodies floating on the water, the scene like they saw in the Superdome - people are not ready for that. They are not prepared to deal with it.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.