Reese Butler Quotations

We need to be doing text messaging on cell phones, we need to be doing online counseling in chat rooms, we need to be doing email -- wherever they will meet us and be willing to open up, that's where we have to be.

Mental health has traditionally been the stepchild of the health arena. You wouldn't even find it in the public health arena; it would be shunted off to asylums and then state institutions and then eventually community mental health centers. We always want to separate the brain from the body.

Everyone from Gregory Peck to Paul Newman has lost children to suicide. But Michael J. Fox, the fact that he had Parkinson's for six or eight years -- Parkinson's! Nobody inflicts Parkinson's on themselves, so what was the big deal about him coming out? Because it would hurt his star credibility, and nobody would want to put him in a movie because of the risk liability.

It's not even just a waste of money -- they're actually competing with us! They're hurting an existing, successful effort, and for what?