Elyn Saks Quotes

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• Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.
• Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.
• Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.
• 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 United…
• Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
• One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was ‘gravely disabled.’ To support this view, they wrote…
• My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy,
• There are not schizophrenics. There are people with schizophrenia and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your…
• Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.
• No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that…
• My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found…
• Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.
• In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or…
• Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.
• I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my…
• The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

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