quotes about Schizophrenia
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For schizophrenia, the recovery rate with drug therapy is under 15%. With nutritional therapy, the recovery rate is 80%.
-- Abram Hoffer -
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
-- Alexis Korner -
I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.
-- Darrell HammondSource : "Darrell Hammond Performed on 'SNL' Same Week He Was Taken From NBC in Straitjacket" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 26, 2011.
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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
-- E. L. DoctorowSource : Interview in "Writers at Work" (The Paris Review Interviews), 8th Series, 1988.
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Some call it schizophrenia, I call it a career
-- Ellen Greene -
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 SaksSource : "My life with schizophrenia" by Elyn Saks, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2012.
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Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.
-- Elyn SaksSource : "What's It Like To Have A Psychotic Episode?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 6, 2013.
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Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.
-- Emilie Autumn -
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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
-- John Forbes Nash -
Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.
-- Maria BamfordSource : "Stand-up Comedy and Mental Illness: A Conversation with Maria Bamford". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. May 10, 2012.
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As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.
-- Mark VonnegutSource : Giorgio Vasari, George Bull (1978). “Artists of the Renaissance: a selection from Lives of the artists”, Viking Pr
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Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.
-- Mark Vonnegut -
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Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
-- Marshall McLuhan -
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
-- R. D. Laing -
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I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.
-- Jim ShawSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.
-- Brian Lindstrom -
Why should an intellectual have to renounce the pleasures of life? I am not a hermit. I am a man of flesh and blood. In fact, if you look at my name in French, that schizophrenia, that aspiration to several lives is contained in my name. Lévy is also les vies - "the lives".
-- Bernard-Henri LevySource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com