Top 39 Elyn Saks Quotes
#1. Some truths that were too difficult and frightening to know.
Elyn R. Saks
#2. Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the stigma is so great that they don't come forward.
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#3. Nothing I can do. There will be raging fires, and hundreds, maybe thousands of people lying dead in the streets. And it will all - all of it - be my fault.
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#4. The train is moving, so either jump in or jump out but i dare you to stand in front of it !!
Hisham Fawzi
#5. There are forces of nature and circumstance that are beyond our control, let alone our understanding, and to insist on victory in the face of this, to accept nothing less, is just asking for a soul-pummeling. The simple truth is, not every fight can be won.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Treason is when legislators vote against homeland security measures because it goes against the wishes of their political or financial backers. Treason is the fact that, as a terrorist, you could still buy a gun in this country because the NRA lobby is so strong.
Bill Maher
#8. I was afraid the staff would laugh at me - and as frightened as I was, the thought of derision frightened me even more. In retrospect, it was a life-threatening deception, somewhat along the lines of hiding recurrent chest pains from one's cardiologist from embarrassment. Nearly
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#9. 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.
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#10. Mental illness is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends and confidants-and certainly to their employers.
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#11. All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment; action for the common good in the present moment; and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way." - MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 9.6
Ryan Holiday
#12. I remember that already as a child I was often intensely interested in things, obsessed by ideas and projects in many areas, and in these topics I learned much on my own, reading books.
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
#13. From the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#14. The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not
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#15. 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.
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#16. Everyone becomes psychotic in his or her own ways.
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#17. In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions.
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#18. 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.
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#19. Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.
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#20. One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was 'gravely disabled.' To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.
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#21. Uncle Miles was napping in his seat, blithely and easily as a puppy on a rug.
Frances Hardinge
#22. I'm hungrier than a kid on his third day of fat camp.
John Green
#23. Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.
Elyn Saks
#24. My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.
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#25. Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.
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#26. Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
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#27. All my life, books had been the life raft, the safe haven, the place I ran to when nothing else worked.
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#28. A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.
Warren Buffett
#29. There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.
Lana Wachowski
#30. Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.
Elyn Saks
#32. In my experience, the words "now just calm down" almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.
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#33. Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.
Jim Rohn
#34. There's a tremendous need to implode the myths of mental illness, to put a face on it, to show people that a diagnosis does not have to lead to a painful and oblique life ... We who struggle with these disorders can lead full, happy, productive lives, if we have the right resources.
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#35. Don't focus on it," she said. "Don't define yourself in terms of something which even many highly trained and gifted professionals do not fully understand.
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#36. My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop you. At some level your brain is telling you you probably shouldn't be doing this, but you're on a mission.
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#37. Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.
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#38. The human brain comprises about 2 percent of a person's body weight, but it consumes upward of 20 pcent of that body's oxygen intake, and it controls 100 percent of that body's actions.
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#39. The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
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