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


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Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.



No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness



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.

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.



Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.

Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.



Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.



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.

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.



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

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



My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.



Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.

Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.



Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.

Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.





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Educating people beyond their intellectual means is a disservice to humanity. A clueless person who knows little is a nuisance; a clueless person who knows a lot is a menace.

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You just have this freedom when you're younger - this lack of concern to fail or do anything wrong. It comes with an ease that I've found has kind of deteriorated over time.

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If you're not doing what is best for your body, you are the one who lose.



Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, You gotta believe in foolish miracles, it's not how you play the game, it's if you win or lose, you can choose, don't confuse, win or lose.

Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, You gotta believe in foolish miracles, it's not how you play the game, it's if you win or lose, you can choose, don't confuse, win or lose.



despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.

despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.




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