“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.”

“In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.”

“When a system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is to connect it to more of itself.”

“I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.”

“Contemporaneous with the financial crisis we have an ecological crisis and a health crisis. They are intimately interlinked. We cannot convert much more of the earth into money, or much more of our health into money, before the basis of life itself is threatened.”

“In the United States, people with depression, bipolar, and schizophrenia are losing twelve to twenty years in life expectancy compared to people not in the mental health system.”