“In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.” — Kevin Alan Lee Copy Share Image
“When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness?” — Michaela Haze Copy Share Image
Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong. — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder. — Darrell Hammond Copy Share Image
“I'd ask you to think outside the box on this, but it's obvious your box is broken. And has schizophrenia.” — Ted Kosmatka Copy Share Image
After a century of studying schizophrenia, the cause of the disorder remains unknown. — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
“P.S. It's not schizophrenia, it's creativity, there is a difference. My voices go away after I let them tell their stories.” — Ashley Newell 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… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
I believe there is a reason such as autism, severe manic-depression, and schizophrenia remain in our gene pool even though there is… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
“Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.” — Allie Burke Copy Share Image
I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood." "I'd… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a secular life, a spiritual life, an intellectual life, a physical life. I mean, we would be completely wrought… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial… — Alexis Korner Copy Share Image
“The World Health Organization has twice found that schizophrenia outcomes are much, much better in poor countries like India, Nigeria, and Colombia… — Darby Penney Copy Share Image
Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
“Chronic trauma (according to the meaning I propose) that occurs early in life has profound effects on personality development and can lead… — Elizabeth F. Howell Copy Share Image
Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it--and suddenly you forget… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, ever since man had any notion that some of his other people, his colleagues, could be different, could be strange,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
“Dissociative symptoms—primarily depersonalization and derealization—are elements in other DSM-IV disorders, including schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder, and in the neurologic syndrome of… — James A. Chu Copy Share Image
When I speak of divisions greater than gender or race, I say that because it is so unimaginable. I can imagine what… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
“Schizophrenia is a cruel disease. The lives of those affected are often chronicles of constricted experiences, muted emotions, missed opportunities, unfulfilled expectations.… — E. Fuller Torrey Copy Share Image
“Too much possibility is the attempt by the person to overvalue the powers of the symbolic self. It reflects the attempt to… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
ACT psychology is a psychology of the normal. A lot of the psychologies that are out there are built on the psychology… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
“I didn't realize there was a ranking." I said. "Sadie frowned. "What do you mean?" "A ranking," I said. "You know, what's… — Michael Thomas Ford Copy Share Image
“I am alone, but never lonely. I am lonely, but never alone.” — Benjamin Aubrey Myers Copy Share Image