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 U….

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

Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relative….

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

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

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

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces..

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 ch….

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

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life..

There are not schizophrenics. There are people with schizophrenia and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neigh….

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 ba….

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

Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways..