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Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

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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.

Fortune, Lies, Lying, Mental Illness, Recovered
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Portray [people with mental illness] sympathetically, and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people, and not as diagnoses.

Depth, Diagnoses, Illness, Inspiration, Motivation, People

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

Broken, Legs, People, Say

Some people still hold [the] view that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe. I've never met a psychiatric patient who agreed.

Motivation, Inspiration, Views, Safe, Hold, Psychiatric

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L. A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

County, Inspiration, Jail, Mental, Motivation, United

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.

Powerful, Children, Knowing, Supportive, Schizophrenia, Nothing
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