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 stigma is so great that they don't come forward. — 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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