Liz Murray Quotes

I did have friends who have suffered from schizophrenia and mild dissociative identity disorder, as well as more extreme cases of social anxiety disorder.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

I don't like psychiatry. I don't believe it works. I believe psychiatrists are neurotic or psychotic, for the most part.

Always gotta keep busy or the voices start telling me to do wild things.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the stigma is so great that they don't come forward.

It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.

I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.

One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was 'gravely disabled.' To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.

When I'm talking about depression, I'm talking about the more severe forms of depression, and I think that conceptualising as a form of grief is probably not the most effective way of looking at it. I mean, at the end of the day, people suffer enormously, and you want to treat it.

Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

I've been blind in my mind since the age of three.

The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.

When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I'll probably have to be on it the rest of my life.

Certainly there is such a thing as chemical depression, and for that, obviously, there are issues that psychotherapists are much more expert at speaking to, but I think there is a low-grade depression that actually prevails in our society. And most of us feel it.

Schizophrenia demons live in my head.

I have an addiction. I have a mental illness.

When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist.

Manic depressive is a disease.