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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies…
• Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

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