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Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness QUOTES

Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness QUOTES

1 " The actor playing Lee got really irritated. He tried to escape by turning, running, or twisting and talking or yelling above the voice of the illness, but the illness didn't sit quietly. "

― Pete Earley , Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

2 " We insist no one be compelled to take antipsychotic drugs until he becomes so deranged that he is in 'imminent danger' and a judge has to intervene to save his life. If we really believed that forced treatment was an injustice and forced medication was cruel, then why would we allow a judge to impose it as a last resort to save a life? "

― Pete Earley , Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

3 " There was however, a group of 507 individuals who were permanent street dwellers [in Miami.] These 507 were not indigent, down-on-their-luck families. They were single people and every one of them was mentally ill. "

― Pete Earley , Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

4 " If you ask most people today where the mentally ill are in our society, they will tell you they’re in state mental hospitals. They’re wrong. . . . They are in our jails and prisons. —Judge Steven Leifman Eleventh Judicial Circuit Miami, Florida "

― Pete Earley , Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

5 " We insist no one be compelled to take antipsychotic drugs until he becomes so deranged that he is in 'imminent danger' and a judge has to intervene to save his life. If we really believed that forced treatment was an injustice and forced medication was cruel, then why would we allow a judge to impose it as a last resort to save a life? "

― Pete Earley , Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness

6 " Mental illness is a cruel disease. "

― Pete Earley , Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health Madness