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.
Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.
Please hear this: There are not ‘schizophrenics,’ there are people with 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.
When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia.
It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.
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.
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.
Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.
If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.