A professor with schizophrenia
Elyn Saks has chronic schizophrenia, and she is a professor of law, psychology and psychiatry at USC. She might have spent her life in the back ward of a hospital, but that's not what happened.
She starts by telling of the time when Dr. White, her doctor after she graduated from law school, was getting ready to leave his practice.
No stigma for mental illness!
Mental illness is the next great prejudice to be tackled. Elyn’s account of being tackled and thrown onto a table when she was not a danger to others shows the immense fear that people have toward the mentally ill. Continuing education within the populace on what different types of mental illness are, exemplified by Elyn Saks’ talks, will hopefully help this cause. But the word needs to go out regularly.