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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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Topics: Like Mind Much Nightmare Say Schizophrenia Schizophrenic Shattered Split Waking

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

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Topics: Hear People Please Schizophrenia

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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.

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Topics: Come Forward Great Like Me Other Out People People Say Say Schizophrenia Some Some People Stigma Unique Well

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

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Topics: Been Best Best Friend Both Enemy Friend Mind Worst

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

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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.

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Topics: Am Back Chronic Could Days Differently Ended Hospitals Hundreds Life Living Most My Life Out Psychiatric Quite Schizophrenia Spent Things Turned Up Ward Woman I Am

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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

Topics: About Against Chart Disabled Doctors Gave Haven Homework Law Law School Me Meant Much New Reasons Rest School Support Unable View Will Wondered Wrote Yale

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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.

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Topics: Caring Childhood Good Growing Growing Up Had Lot Loving Normal Obsessions Parents Phobias Problems Up Very Way

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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

Topics: Against Been Best Complex Defense Illness Mental Mental Illness Mind Most Most Powerful Occupying Powerful Problems Reliable

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: Unknown

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