Come Quote by 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

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

— Elyn Saks

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

— 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

I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure…

— Tom Waits

I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats against the…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

“The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the drug of…

— Jonathan Harnisch

“Although it is important to be able to recognise and disclose symptom of physical illnesses or injury, you need to be more careful about…

— Alison Miller

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of…

— Elyn Saks

Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways.…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong,…

— Tracy Thompson

“I am alone, but never lonely. I am lonely, but never alone.”

— Benjamin Aubrey Myers