Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses. — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare. — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
There are not schizophrenics. There are people with schizophrenia and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia. — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was ‘gravely disabled.’ To support this view, they… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed. — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
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