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Illness Quotes by Elyn Saks
- Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.
- 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.
- 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.
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- My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater
- If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. — Margaret Atwood
- A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay… — Lauren Bacall
- I always had a dissociative disorder. But I healed from it over the course of 14 years of big-time therapy. But, you… — Roseanne Barr
- Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they… — Ezra Taft Benson
- I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works.… — Jello Biafra
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- Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day… — Frank Bruno
- Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad,… — Frank Bruno