The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

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.

Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.

Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.

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

Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.