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.
When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.
Zimbabweans are severely malnourished, and deaths from starvation occur even in the cities. The country has not yet suffered nationwide famine only because international donors have stepped in.
The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.
You don't train someone for all of those years of medical school and residency, particularly people who want to help others optimize their physical and psychological health, and then have them run a claims-processing operation for insurance companies.
Just using a checklist requires [doctors] to embrace different values from ones we've had, like humility, discipline, teamwork.
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