We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends and confidants-and certainly to their employers.

A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.