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.

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.

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

My good fortune is not that I've recovered from mental illness. I have not, nor will I ever. My good fortune lies in having found my life.

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

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