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Elyn Saks Quotes

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Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust  (Elyn Saks Quotes) 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 Quotes) Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I’ve never met a psychiatric patient who agreed  (Elyn Saks Quotes) My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy  (Elyn Saks Quotes) Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways  (Elyn Saks Quotes) Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness  (Elyn Saks Quotes) No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness  (Elyn Saks Quotes) 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 Quotes) Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces  (Elyn Saks Quotes) The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare  (Elyn Saks Quotes) 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 Quotes)