Am Quote by Elyn Saks

Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.

— Elyn Saks

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy,

— 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.

— Elyn Saks

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

— Elyn Saks

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

Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.

— Elyn Saks

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

Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.

— Elyn Saks

Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively…

— Elyn Saks

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

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

Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.

— Elyn Saks