Conditions Quote by R. D. Laing

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

— R. D. Laing

“When had I stopped being a person with Paranoid Schizophrenia, and become a Paranoid Schizophrenic; defined by my illness?”

— Michaela Haze

I'd like to create a lovable character for schizophrenia; it doesn't have a celebrity spokesperson because by the time somebody's schizophrenic they've lost all…

— Maria Bamford

I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I'd heard something about schizophrenia and how people just suddenly…

— Brad Warner

I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They…

— Abram Hoffer

“Sadly, psychiatric training still includes far too little on the very serious psychiatric sequelae of childhood trauma, especially CSA [child sexual abuse]. There is…

— Joan Coleman

Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses. The theory…

— Gregory Bateson

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

— Elyn Saks

When I speak of divisions greater than gender or race, I say that because it is so unimaginable. I can imagine what it would…

— Martha Stout

Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or…

— Anonymous

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

— R. D. Laing

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

— R. D. Laing