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11 quotes by Elyn Saks

Elyn R. Saks is Associate Dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School, an expert in mental health law and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship winner. Saks lives with schizophrenia and has written about her experience with the illness in her award-winning best-selling autobiography, The Center Cannot Hold, published by Hyperion Books in...
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The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

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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... →

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

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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... →

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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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

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

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