Quotes by Elyn Saks - Page 1

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.
Elyn Saks / Professor
Best Friend
Enemy
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Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.
Elyn Saks / Professor
Friends
Trust
Also
You
Choose
Wisely
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Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.
Elyn Saks / Professor
Please
Schizophrenia
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The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
Elyn Saks / Professor
Mind
Nightmare
Schizophrenia
Shattered
Waking
Much
Say
Split
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Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
Elyn Saks / Professor
Defense
Illness
Mental Illness
Most Powerful
Powerful
Complex
Mental
Occupying
Reliable
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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.
Elyn Saks / Professor
County
Facility
Illness
Jail
Mental Illness
Psychiatric
Scandal
States
Tragedy
United States
Biggest
Mental
National
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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.
Elyn Saks / Professor
Caring
Loving
Normal Childhood
Obsessions
Phobias
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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.
Elyn Saks / Professor
Schizophrenia
Stigma
Unique
Great Me People
Forward
People Say
Some People
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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.
Elyn Saks / Professor
Hospitals
Psychiatric
Schizophrenia
Life I Am My Life
Chronic
Ended
Hundreds
Ward
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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.
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Psychosis
Mission
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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.
Elyn Saks / Professor
Disabled
Doctors
Homework
Meant
Chart
Gravely
Haven
Reasons
Unable
Wondered
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