“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 e...”

“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.”

“Dropping in and out of your own life (for psychotic breaks, or treatment in a hospital) isnt like getting off a train at one stop and later getting back on at another. Even if you can get back on (...”

“in my experience, the words now just calm down almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.”

“Theres 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 the...”

“The simple truth is, not every fight can be won.”

“...American psychology effectively guaranteed its place as a cultural icon by helping to create the pathologies it simultaneously promised to treat. (p. 37)”

“God will bring you a gift. However, it is up to you to stop shaking the same box and expecting something wonderful will fall out of it again. After a while, you are going to break that box and it w...”

“Although Dissociative Disorders have been observed from the beginnings of psychiatry, the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Dissociative Disorders (Steinberg 1985) was the first diagnosti...”

“You're not to achieve anything, on the contrary you are to drop whatever you have accumulated over ages and its difficult mind you, not that its part of you, but YOU have owned this mental clutter ...”

“The unique stigma of PTSD. The stigma of PTSD remains one of the most formidable barriers to effective care.”