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> [Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elyn-saks/choose-your-friends-wisely-and-also-choose-friends-that-you-can-trust/)

[Elyn Saks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elyn-saks/)

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## More by Elyn Saks

> [Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elyn-saks/choose-your-friends-wisely-and-also-choose-friends-that-you-can-trust/)

[Elyn Saks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elyn-saks/)

> [My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elyn-saks/my-mind-has-been-both-my-best-friend-and-my-worst-enemy/)

[Elyn Saks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elyn-saks/)

> [ Portray \[people with mental illness\] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elyn-saks/portray-people-with-mental-illness-sympathetically-and-portray-them/)

[Elyn Saks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elyn-saks/)

> [The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elyn-saks/the-schizophrenic-mind-is-not-so-much-split-as-shattered-i-like-to/)

[Elyn Saks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elyn-saks/)

> [There are not schizophrenics. There are people with schizophrenia and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elyn-saks/there-are-not-schizophrenics-there-are-people-with-schizophrenia-and/)

[Elyn Saks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elyn-saks/)

> [Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elyn-saks/everyone-becomes-psychotic-in-his-or-her-own-ways/)

[Elyn Saks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elyn-saks/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elyn-saks/my-experience-is-that-when-one-is-in-psychosis-you-re-on-a-mission/)

[Elyn Saks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elyn-saks/)

> [Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elyn-saks/please-hear-this-there-are-not-schizophrenics-there-are-people-with/)

[Elyn Saks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elyn-saks/)

> [Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elyn-saks/even-with-all-that-excellent-treatment-wonderful-family-and-friends/)

[Elyn Saks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elyn-saks/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elyn-saks/we-must-stop-criminalizing-mental-illness-it-s-a-national-tragedy-and/)

[Elyn Saks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elyn-saks/)

> [One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was ‘gravely disabled.’ To support this view, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elyn-saks/one-of-the-reasons-the-doctors-gave-for-hospitalizing-me-against-my/)

[Elyn Saks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elyn-saks/)

> [ Some people still hold \[the\] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elyn-saks/some-people-still-hold-the-view-that-restraints-help-psychiatric/)

[Elyn Saks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elyn-saks/)

> [Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elyn-saks/some-people-say-i-m-unique-that-there-aren-t-other-people-with/)

[Elyn Saks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elyn-saks/)

> [In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elyn-saks/in-a-way-i-had-a-very-good-and-normal-childhood-i-had-loving-and/)

[Elyn Saks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elyn-saks/)

> [Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elyn-saks/occupying-my-mind-with-complex-problems-has-been-my-best-and-most/)

[Elyn Saks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elyn-saks/)

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