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“We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy…” quote by Elyn Saks — Download Open 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 United States.”

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

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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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