Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.
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.
Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
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.