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.
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Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.
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Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.
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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…
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Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
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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…
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My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy,
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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…
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Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.
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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…
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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…
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Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.
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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…
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Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.
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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…
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The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
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