“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...”

“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.”

“Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.”

“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.”

“Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.”

“PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.”

“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”

“Don't just stand there and nod. The mind observes and cogitates, the heart engages, and I would encourage you to engage with the process.”

“The necessary and needful reaction from the collective unconscious expresses itself in archetypally formed ideas. The meeting with oneself is, at first, the meeting with one's own shadow. The shado...”

“The unconscious no sooner touches us than we are itwe become unconscious of ourselves. That is the age-old danger, instinctively known and feared by primitive man, who himself stands so very close ...”

“We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.”

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

“Schizophrenia beats dining alone.”