Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.
My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.
Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.
Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.
Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.
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.