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.

My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.

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

One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was ‘gravely disabled.’ To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.

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.