Schizophrenia famous quotes

For schizophrenia, the recovery rate with drug therapy is under 15%. With nutritional therapy, the recovery rate is 80%.
-- Abram Hoffer

#Recovery #Drug #Schizophrenia

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

#Schizophrenia #Form #Beneficial

I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.
-- Darrell Hammond

#Personality #Schizophrenia #Disorder

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
-- E. L. Doctorow

#Writing #Schizophrenia #Form

Some call it schizophrenia, I call it a career
-- Ellen Greene

#Careers #Schizophrenia

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 Saks

#Schizophrenia #Psychiatric

Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.
-- Elyn Saks

#People #Schizophrenia #Please

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I.
-- Emilie Autumn

#Suffering #Schizophrenia #Enjoy

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
-- John Forbes Nash

#Age #Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.
-- Maria Bamford

#Voice #Hearing #Schizophrenia

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 Vonnegut

#Mental Illness #Schizophrenia #Worst

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.
-- Mark Vonnegut

#Crazy #Knowing #Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.
-- Marshall McLuhan

#May #Literacy #Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
-- Oscar Levant

#Dining #Schizophrenia #Beats

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
-- R. D. Laing

#Understanding #Despair #Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia demons live in my head.
-- Wesley Willis

#Demon #Schizophrenia

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 Shaw

#Neurosis #Aspergers #Schizophrenia

We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.
-- Brian Lindstrom

#Character #Film #Schizophrenia

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 Levy

#Men #Intellectual #Schizophrenia