Elyn Saks quotes

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness. (Elyn Saks)
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare. View quote
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I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently. View quote
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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 wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven. View quote
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Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia. View quote
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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. View quote
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My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy. View quote
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