Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.
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.
- 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
Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.
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.
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… - Elyn Saks
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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