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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.” quote by Elyn Saks — Download Open 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.”

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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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Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.

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

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

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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…

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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter…

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Life can be difficult sometimes, it gets bumpy. What with family and kids and things not going exactly like you planned. But that's what…

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...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering…

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