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Quotes about mental illness
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. (Adler Renata)
It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior. (Adler Renata)
There is no such condition as schizophrenia, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. (Adler Renata)
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. (Adler Renata)
Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. (Adler Renata)
No further evidence is needed to show that mental illness is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. (Adler Renata)
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