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
Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed. - Elyn Saks
Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.
- Elyn Saks
My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy. - Elyn Saks
My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.
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… - Elyn Saks
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…
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. - Elyn Saks
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.
Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness. - Elyn Saks
Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagno… - Elyn Saks
Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagno…
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare. - Elyn Saks
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
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… - Elyn Saks
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…
Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces. - Elyn Saks
Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.
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