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我能不能把你的办公室废弃了?这是Elyn对她医生曾问的问题,而且不是开玩笑.一个合法的学术家,在2007年Saks来这里,带着她自己精神分裂症的故事,被治疗和药物所控制但始终存在.在这个强大的演讲中,她请求我们去用清晰的,诚实的,同情的眼光去看待有精神疾病的人们。
n. 偏见，伤害
vt. 使 ... 存偏见，
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- Everything about this illness says I shouldn't be here, but I am.
- 任何关于此疾病都暗示我不应该在这里，但是我还是在这里.
- And I am, I think, for three reasons:
- 我觉得吧..有三个原因:
- First, I've had excellent treatment.
- 第一,我已经有了极好的治疗了
- Four- to five-day-a-week psychoanalytic psychotherapy for decades and continuing, and excellent psychopharmacology.
- 一周四到五次的心理分析和心理治疗持续了几十年,以及非常先进的心理配药
- Second, I have many close family members and friends who know me and know my illness.
- 第一,我有我的家庭成员都朋友都知道我和我的疾病
- These relationships have given my life a meaning and a depth,
- 这些关系给我的人生一个意味和一个深度,
- and they also helped me navigate my life in the face of symptoms.
- 他们还帮助我在这些症状面前找到生活的方向
- Third, I work at an enormously supportive workplace at USC Law School.
- 第三,我在一个极具支持力的工作环境里工作就在USC法律学校
- This is a place that not only accommodates my needs but actually embraces them.
- 这是一个不仅仅满足我需求的地方，而且实际上它拥抱我的需求
- It's also a very intellectually stimulating place,
- 它也同样是一个刺激思考的地方
- and occupying my mind with complex problems
- 能够使我的脑子充满各种复杂的问题
- has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.
- 这些都是最强有力最有依赖性的抵御我精神疾病的武器
- Even with all that excellent treatment, wonderful family and friends, supportive work environment
- 即使这些全都有---良好的治疗,融合的家庭和朋友,和谐的工作环境--
- I did not make my illness public until relatively late in life,
- 直到很晚我才公开了我这个疾病
- and that's because the stigma against mental illness is so powerful
- 因为与精神疾病作斗争的烙印太强大了
- that I didn't feel safe with people knowing.
- 以至于我想让别人知道
- If you hear nothing else today, please hear this: There are not "schizophrenics."
- 如果你今天啥都没听到，你一定得记住这一点:这些都不是"精神分裂症"
- There are people with schizophrenia, and these people may be your spouse,
- 而是患有精神分裂症的人们,而这些人可能是你的配偶,
- they may be your child, they may be your neighbor,
- 也可能是你的孩子，可能是你的邻居,
- they may be your friend, they may be your coworker.
- 也可能是你的朋友，还有可能是你的同事
- So let me share some final thoughts.
- 好吧.我就说说我最后的想法
- We need to invest more resources into research and treatment of mental illness.
- 我们需要为精神疾病的研究和治疗进行更多的资源投资
- The better we understand these illnesses, the better the treatments we can provide,
- 我们理解这些疾病越到位,我们能提供的治疗就越先进,
- and the better the treatments we can provide, the more we can offer people care, and not have to use force.
- 这样一来,我们就能给人们带来更多的关怀，而且不需要使用外力
- Also, we must stop criminalizing mental illness.
- 而且,我们应该停止将精神疾病最恶化
- It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the United States.
- 说洛杉矶监狱是美国最大的心理医疗机构，是国家的悲剧和谣言
- American prisons and jails are filled with people who suffer from severe mental illness,
- 美国的监狱是那些被精神疾病所折磨的人占领的,
- and many of them are there because they never received adequate treatment.
- 而且很多人在那是因为他们从未接受过足够的治疗
- I could have easily ended up there or on the streets myself.
- 我当初可以轻松地沦落到大家上
- A message to the entertainment industry and to the press:
- 一条对娱乐行业和新闻业的建议:
- On the whole, you've done a wonderful job fighting stigma and prejudice of many kinds.
- 整体来说,你们在与烙印和各种偏见斗争中干得很不错
- Please, continue to let us see characters in your movies, your plays, your columns,
- 拜托了,继续让我们在你们的电影中,你的戏剧中,你们的专栏中,
- who suffer with severe mental illness.
- 看到那些受严重精神疾病折磨的人
- Portray them sympathetically,
- 同情地描述他们,
- and portray them in all the richness and depth of their experience as people and not as diagnoses.
- 并且有深度地挖掘他们，通过他们亲身的经验而不是简单的一个诊断
- Recently, a friend posed a question:
- 最近,我朋友提出一个问题:
- If there were a pill I could take that would instantly cure me, would I take it?
- 如果我手里有一片瞬间可以治好我的药片,我吃不吃它?
- The poet Rainer Maria Rilke was offered psychoanalysis.
- 诗人Rainer Maria Rilke被提供了心理分析
- He declined, saying, "Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too."
- 他拒绝了,说到:"不要把我的邪恶拿走，因为我的天使也有可能逃跑."
- My psychosis, on the other hand, is a waking nightmare
- 而我的精神病是一个现实的噩梦,
- in which my devils are so terrifying that all my angels have already fled.
- 里面的恶魔十分可怕，以至于所有的天使都逃走了
- So would I take the pill? In an instant.
- 那么我会不会吃掉那个药片了?
- That said, I don't wish to be seen as regretting the life I could have had if I'd not been mentally ill,
- 我不希望被看作是对于如果我没有精神疾病我会拥有的生活所后悔
- nor am I asking anyone for their pity.
- 而我也不是在向任何人寻求怜悯
- What I rather wish to say is that the humanity we all share
- 我实际想说的是我们所共享的人性
- is more important than the mental illness we may not.
- 比精神疾病要重要的多
- What those of us who suffer with mental illness want is what everybody wants:
- 那些经历过精神疾病的人想要的要是其他所有人想要的
- in the words of Sigmund Freud, "to work and to love."
- Sigmund Freud说到:"去工作,去爱."
- Thank you.
- 谢谢.
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