Big cities Quote by Eric McCormack

The homeless person or the schizophrenic person talking to themselves are disassociated from their immediate environment. They're off in a fantasy, and it's very…

— Charles Ray

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

— R. D. Laing

Unfortunately, many in our homeless community suffer from severe mental illness.

— Kevin Faulconer

Every day on our streets there are people who are facing a combination of homelessness, mental illness, and addiction. Each of these conditions is…

— London Breed

You know, ever since man had any notion that some of his other people, his colleagues, could be different, could be strange, could be…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

I think you get mentally ill being homeless. Most of the bag ladies wind up mentally ill pretty quickly - what people would call…

— Alix Kates Shulman

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The…

— Erich Fromm

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

— R. D. Laing

I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear…

— James D. Watson

I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness because they are in the happiest of…

— John Forbes Nash, Jr

People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime…

— Pete Earley

Some people think you've chosen to sleep on the street. People don't choose to lose their jobs or suffer from mental health problems. The…

— James Bowen