Children Quote by Elyn Saks

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

— Elyn Saks

Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.

— R. D. Laing

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

— Elyn Saks

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

I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Few family members act on warning signs when they first present themselves in a schizophrenic patient. It is often quite hard to realize, in…

— Holly Schindler

“Occasionally, family members may reach a point in which they cannot tolerate the odd behavior of the schizophrenic any longer. Often, this leads them…

— Holly Schindler

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

A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.

— Paulo Coelho

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are?

— Ray Combs

No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.

— R. D. Laing

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk…

— Bob Newhart