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

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

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.

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.

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

Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.

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