Schizophrenia Quotes - Page 2

• I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats against the smooth running of the state as insanity and treating it as such, and so as that happens you see the evolution of a process in which people with schizophrenia are increasingly feared and our hospitals, particularly the kind of hospital that I look at in the book become to look more and more like prisons, to the point where many of them including the one I talk about actually become prisons.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Running, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 29, 2010.

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• I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.

  James D. Watson

  Children, Son, Parent

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• There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

  R. D. Laing

  Diversity, Political, Facts

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

  Margaret Atwood

  United States, Canada, Mental Illness

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• Sometimes it happens that you become one, in some rare moment. Watch the ocean, the tremendous wildness of it--and suddenly you forget your split, your schizophrenia; you relax. Or, moving in the Himalayas, seeing the virgin snow on the Himalayan peaks, suddenly a coolness surrounds you and you need not be false because there is no other human being to be false to. You fall together.

  Rajneesh

  Ocean, Moving, Fall

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• In order for him to believe sincerely in eternity, others had to share in this belief, because a belief that no one else shares is called schizophrenia.

  Victor Pelevin

  Believe, Order, Belief

  Victor Pelevin (2002). “Homo Zapiens”, p.12, Penguin

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• I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

  David Icke

  Believe, Race, Police

  Leading Edge Newspaper, July/August 1996.

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• When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia.

  Lily Tomlin

  Prayer

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• There are people who are convinced supernatural forces are at work, but I've no idea. I suspect 'possession' might be a psychological thing, like schizophrenia. We all think we know things, but we don't know a damn thing. Whether God exists, why we're here... Nobody really knows any of it.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Ideas, Supernatural Forces

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• Living with bipolar, schizophrenia or any other mental condition takes a recognition that one has a chronic condition that needs managing. The management can be through pharmaceutical intervention, talk therapy, mindfulness programmes, diet and exercise changes, all kinds of things.

  Stephen Fry

  Exercise, Bipolar, Mindfulness

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• Before I tell you, I have to know three things," I said. "Okay." "One, are you sitting down?" "Yes." "Two, are you mentally stable?" "More than you'll ever be." Well, that was uncalled for. "And three, how do you spell schizophrenia?" "What does that have to do with anything?" "Nothing. I just wanted to see if you'd tell me.

  Darynda Jones

  Two, Sitting Down, Doe

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.46, St. Martin's Press

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• 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

  Psychiatric, Psychiatric Hospitals, Hospitals

  "My life with schizophrenia" by Elyn Saks, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2012.

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• Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.

  Vittorio Gassman

  Character, Acting, Actors

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  Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create a better behaved, chronic dependent person. Only with orthomolecular treatment can the majority of schizophrenic patients hope to become well and normally independent.

  Abram Hoffer

  Life, Hope, Independent

  Abram Hoffer, CREATESPACE (2009). “Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians”, p.108, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.

  R. D. Laing

  Patient, Cold, Schizophrenic

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• It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or it might descend like a sudden catastrophe, this blankness between ourselves and the rest of the world. The blankness might not even be obvious to others. But on our side of that severed connection, it was hell, a life lived behind glass. The only difference between mild depression and severe schizophrenia was the amount of sound and air that seeped in.

  Tracy Thompson

  Differences, Glasses, Air

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• Even with all that - excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment - I did not make my illness public until relatively late in life, and that's because the stigma against mental illness is so powerful that I didn't feel safe with people knowing. If you hear nothing else today, please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics'. There are people with schizophrenia, and these people may be your spouse, they may be your child, they may be your neighbor, they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.

  Elyn Saks

  Children, Powerful, Knowing

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• A lot of people don't know me. I was a man in a suit for many years, but it's really gonna work to my advantage and I've always known that. I'm turning 30 in a month... that's something for me to look at. Generally when people see me and greet me, they're kind of astonished at what I really am. It's all about playing character and really becoming somebody else. I've always said, "Acting is nothing more than paid schizophrenia if you're doing it right.".

  Jaleel White

  Character, Men, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.

  R. D. Laing

  Names, Patient, Psychiatrist

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• We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Character, Film, Main Characters

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There's been an amazing backlash for the last decade in America: political correctness. In many ways, I think that, while we've been remarkably violent in our media, there's been a real schizophrenia. In private, on the Internet, and on public-affairs shows or talk radio, we're way more explicit than we've ever been. But traditional Hollywood has been much more frightened than it ever was in the '70s about presenting things that could be perceived as politically incorrect.

  Ivan Reitman

  Real, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

  R. D. Laing

  Successful, Reality, Pseudo

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

  John Forbes Nash

  Age, Moderates

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• We're all divided souls, we've got two natures in us, You measure schizophrenia not by the fact that you're divided but how well the divisions speak to one another.

  Norman Mailer

  Two, Soul, Division

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