To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.
JOHN FORBES NASHThere are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.
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People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering.
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This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.
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It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reasons can be found.
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As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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Though I had success in my research both when I was mad and when I was not, eventually I felt that my work would be better respected if I thought and acted like a ‘normal’ person.
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It’s better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction.
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I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I’m not in the position.
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Thus I have hopes of being able to achieve something of value through my current studies or with any new ideas that come in the future.
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I later spent… five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
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Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person’s concept of his relation to the cosmos.
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Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation.
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Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.
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The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month’s dress.
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I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift.
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