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Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

- Elyn Saks
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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.

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

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 say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the stigma is so great that they don't come forward.

In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions.

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

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

My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.

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.

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Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.