“ 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. Elyn R. Saks
“ Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces. Elyn R. Saks
“ 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 empl… 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
“ 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
“ Dropping in and out of your own life (for psychotic breaks, or treatment in a hospital) isn’t like getting off a train at one stop and later getting back on at another. Even if you can get back on (an… Elyn R. Saks
“ 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… Elyn R. Saks
