People Quote by Elyn Saks Download Open image “Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.” — Elyn Saks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare People Please Schizophrenia
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 Copy Share Image
Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“Many DID patients have been misdiagnosed as schizophrenics and treated with neuroleptics.” — Masatoshi Shibayama Copy Share Image
“Once labeled schizophrenic the pseudopatient was stuck with that label. —DAVID ROSENHAN,” — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong. — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare. — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed. — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the… — Elyn Saks Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
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