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Elyn Saks
American
Educator
Best
Me
Mind
Problems
Schizophrenia
You
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Choose your friends wisely, and also choose friends that you can trust.
Elyn Saks
You
Trust
Wisely
Also
Friends
Your
Choose
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
Elyn Saks
Mind
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenic
Say
Split
Like
Shattered
Waking
Much
Nightmare
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
National
States
Scandal
Must
Mental
Mental Illness
Facility
County
Tragedy
Jail
Stop
Psychiatric
Biggest
Illness
United
United States
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.
Elyn Saks
Good
Problems
Parents
Caring
Way
Phobias
Had
Obsessions
Normal
Lot
Normal Childhood
Up
Very
Childhood
Loving
Growing
Growing Up
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.
Elyn Saks
Great
Me
People
Some People
Schizophrenia
Other
Say
Out
People Say
Some
Come
Like
Well
Stigma
Forward
Unique
My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy.
Elyn Saks
Best
Enemy
Mind
Worst
Has-Been
Best Friend
Both
Been
Friend
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.
Elyn Saks
Life
Woman
My Life
Schizophrenia
Living
Chronic
Back
Hundreds
Spent
Out
Could
Hospitals
Days
Most
Am
Up
Ended
Quite
Psychiatric
Ward
Turned
Differently
Things
Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
Elyn Saks
Best
Problems
Mind
Defense
Complex
Reliable
Has-Been
Mental
Mental Illness
Powerful
Most
Most Powerful
Occupying
Been
Against
Illness
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