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.

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.

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

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

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

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