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Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

— Elyn Saks

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

— R. D. Laing

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

— Bob Newhart

With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder and harder I find, to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone.

— Bob Newhart

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

— R. D. Laing

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

— Elyn Saks

I'm a schizophrenic writer.

— Lynn Nottage

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.

— Maria Bamford

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

— Jack Kevorkian

✗Opposing Perspectives

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, 'Who do you think you are?'

— Ray Combs

Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.

— Shawn Amos