Schizophrenia quotes

“If you hear nothing else today, please hear that there are no schizophrenics. There are people with schizophrenia. And each of these people may be a parent, your sibling, your neighbor, or your colleague. ”– Inspired by Elyn Saks Have you heard of The disease’s complexity leads many to misunderstand, fear, and stereotype those with it. Consequently, individuals often confront significant stigma. We’re spreading schizophrenia awareness by sharing the words of those who confront the condition. Below are twenty quotes that illustrate living with the illness. Quotes on Living with Schizophrenia Quote 1: I was diagnosed with schizophrenia 14 months ago. And I was happier pre-diagnosis. I’ve not felt normal since that day. – Unknown Quote 2: Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. – Unknown Quote 3: I have schizophrenia. That means everyone thinks I’m a monster. – Unknown Quote 4: My mom doesn’t know how to deal with me since we found out I had schizophrenia. Whenever I tell her a problem, she freaks out and then pretends as if I never said anything. – Unknown Quote 5: I don’t tell many people I have schizophrenia because I’m afraid of having nobody. But sometimes my problems get the best of me, and people think I’m being terribly mean to them or being weird. – Unknown Quote 6: From the outside looking in, it’s hard to understand. From the inside looking out, it’s hard to explain. – Unknown Quote 7: Imagine being bombarded with voices from invisible fo...

If you’re searching for Famous Schizophrenia Quotes Schizophrenia affects so much of the body and mind. These symptoms come from the condition itself, the medicine, and a little of both. Nothing can prepare you for all that might happen over the lifetime of a psychotic illness. If you know a psychotic person, be kind: they’re going through a lot. Rose Parker Even in the state of chronic illness, an occasional person with schizophrenia will exhibit surprising insight. One woman, afflicted by schizophrenia for many years, wrote me that she would gladly ‘sacrifice my right arm to make my brain work.’ Another woman who had severe schizophrenia for seven years, when I asked her what she was asking for at Christmas, looked at me sadly, paused for a moment, and then replied, ‘A mind.’ E. Fuller Torrey It’s been a real struggle and a real fight to get to this point and to overcome not only my symptoms but also this internalized stigma or this stigma that I’ve internalized as well. Through this process though, I’ve learned so much about myself and I’ve learned just how resilient I can be. Lauren The paucity of sympathy for those with schizophrenia makes it that much more of a disaster. Being afflicted with the disease is bad enough by itself. Those of us who have not had this disease should ask ourselves, for example, how we would feel if our brain began playing tricks on us, if unseen voices shouted at us, if we lost the capacity to feel emotions and if we lost the ability to reas...

A Beautiful Mind manages to twist enough pathos out of John Nash's incredible life story to redeem an at-times goofy portrayal of schizophrenia. Russell Crowe tackles the role with characteristic fervor, playing the Nobel prize-winning mathematician from his days at Princeton, where he developed a groundbreaking economic theory, to his meteoric rise to the cover of Forbes magazine and an MIT professorship, and on through to his eventual dismissal due to schizophrenic delusions. Of course, it is the delusions that fascinate director Ron Howard and, predictably, go astray. Nash's other world, populated as it is by a maniacal Department of Defense agent (Ed Harris), an imagined college roommate who seems straight out of Dead Poets Society, and an orphaned girl, is so fluid and scriptlike as to make the viewer wonder if schizophrenia is really as slick as depicted. Crowe's physical intensity drags us along as he works admirably to carry the film on his considerable shoulders. No doubt the story of Nash's amazing will to recover his life without the aid of medication is a worthy one, his eventual triumph heartening. Unfortunately, Howard's flashy style is unable to convey much of it. --Fionn Meade Alicia: How big is the universe? Nash: Infinite. Alicia: How do you know? Nash: I know because all the data indicates it's infinite. Alicia: But it hasn't been proven yet. Nash: No. Alicia: You haven't seen it. Nash: No. Alicia: How do you know for sure? Nash: I don't, I just believe ...

I don't know if I am more prone to addiction because of my mental illnesses, but it seems like it. For years I smoked cigarettes, and I believe they were masking my more problematic symptoms and emotions or that smoking was a coping mechanism for the symptoms, which were increasing the older I got. I didn't have my first episode of psychosis until my late twenties. Still, before that, I dealt with anxiety, often staying up late into the night, going over every detail of every conversation I had earlier in the day - constantly worrying that I said or did the wrong thing. Switching one Addiction for Another I quit smoking over fifteen years ago, but when things got stressful, I started to go to casinos and play slot machines. During a year when I was going through multiple tests for cancer, I played slot machines every chance I got. I played so much that I received many gifts, hotel stays, and meals as a part of a player's club. It never got so bad that we couldn't pay our bills. Still, it was an expensive way to deal with unpleasant emotions (fear and anxiety), wasting money that could fund our retirement, pay for a vacation, or any other healthier choices. During the pandemic, I was afraid to go to casinos because I worried about getting Covid, so I ultimately gave up gambling. However, the desire and inclination to use something as a distraction from my symptoms were still there. That is when I started spending most of my day checking my smartphone. I entered therapy to t...

“THE FIVE WAYS OF HIGH INTENSITY SELF-DECEPTION So, since we postulate psychosis as a continuum of self-deception experiences, it is appropriate to distinguish the main channels that the effort of self-deception, when carried out in a superlative way, would use to materialize a) Memory impairment This would be the case of one who remembers more easily successes than their failures at one end of low-intensity self-deception, or who changes his entire biography adopting a false identity at the other end, and through different gradations of self-deception. b) The alteration of the information from the 5 senses. This would be the case of hallucinations. c) Alteration of reasoning and logic. Even being true, the information coming from the memory and the five senses, it is possible to process it so that it reaches conclusions that are away from the premises and thus achieve self-deception. An attenuated example of this would be known "bias" and a stronger then this would be the total distortion of logic and language. d) Mysticism. While respecting the information that comes from the five senses, memory, and without destroying logic or reasoning, self-deception could be carried out in superlative dimensions if you follow the path of mysticism. Here, the mechanism operates like believing in stories that, because they are mystical, take place beyond the perceptible and, therefore, do not contradict the information provided by the five senses. e) Mixed. The fifth way, which will be...