There is no health without mental health; mental health is too important to be left to the professionals alone, and mental health is everyone's business.
Interpretation
Mental health is crucial for overall well-being and requires collective attention.
This quote emphasizes that mental health is an essential aspect of health that cannot be overlooked or solely managed by professionals. It advocates for a communal responsibility towards mental wellness, encouraging everyone to recognize its importance and contribute to a supportive environment.
In practice
In a mental health awareness seminar to highlight the importance of community support.
It is easy to lay the blame on successive governments for failing to address health as a fundamental right for the Indian people. But the real tragedy is that we, the people of India, have not taken our government to task for this catastrophic failure.
In many parts of the world, chaining of people with mental illnesses is not uncommon, nor is seeing people walking around in clearly an unwell state, half naked, and no one takes any notice of them. It is tragic. There is a basic human right, which is not about just healthcare, but it is about the right to life with dignity, a right to citizenship.
Mental health can improve overall well-being and prevent other illnesses. And since mental health problems have a serious economic impact on vulnerable communities, making them a priority can save lives and markedly improve people's quality of life.
Most aid agencies do not even consider proposals to treat mental health problems; those that do think of it as a minor player, overshadowed by the pressing need to save lives by treating physical illness.
A real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect to body, soul and spirit.
Truly affordable but high-quality health care tools and services are the only means by which quality health care can be provided to all.
Shift work, where the body clock is continuously changed, is really deleterious on many levels - from psychology to physiology.
I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.
Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles and have no idea what it might do.
The term “starvation diet” refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: “suicide.
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