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

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.

Everyone in need must have access to high-quality, effective and affordable mental health services, ... Too often, our mental health problems are left to play themselves out in the nation's streets, homeless centers ... and prisons.

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,

We didn't know that he had bi-polar but it's true of anyone with mental health issues that when they're being managed, they do not talk about it. So it caught all of us by surprise. But when we look back on it, his behavior did change. It became erratic.