I posted two famous quotes about sz on facebook…have you any more quotes …btw I am a proud schizy
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u might call it sz pride
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.
Elyn Saks
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.
Elyn Saks
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•“Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.” ~ R. D. Laing – psychiatrist
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“Shine on you crazy diamond.”
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My favorite Pink Floyd song.
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I did not after all these years realize you’re a woman!
“As for me, you must know that I shouldn’t precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice.” Van Gogh, 1889
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i too am a sz person with lots of pride.
elyn saks amazes me. my cognitive decline was so bad right from the start i couldn’t entertain the thought of reading a magazine and here she is going to law school at yale of all things.
remarkable.
judy
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