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

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

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.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

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

There are not schizophrenics. There are people with schizophrenia and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.

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