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There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
John Forbes Nash
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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
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Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.
Mark Vonnegut
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Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E. L. Doctorow
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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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Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.
R. D. Laing
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I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder.
Darrell Hammond
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Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia?
Henry Blackaby
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If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
Thomas Szasz
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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 Shaw
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Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with schizophrenia.
Elyn Saks
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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
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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
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When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia.
Lily Tomlin
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Some call it schizophrenia, I call it a career
Ellen Greene
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Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.
Maria Bamford
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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
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We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character.
Brian Lindstrom
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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 Vonnegut
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It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.
Thom Yorke
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No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.
R. D. Laing
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Vulnerable is a catch-all word like "love" and "schizophrenia."
Jean Houston