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

In my experience, the words "now just calm down" almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to. — Elyn R. Saks

The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not — Elyn R. Saks

Some truths that were too difficult and frightening to know. — Elyn R. Saks

Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust. — Elyn Saks

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

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

All my life, books had been the life raft, the safe haven, the place I ran to when nothing else worked. — Elyn R. Saks

Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia. — Elyn Saks

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

Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways. — Elyn Saks

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. — Elyn R. Saks

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