“Some psychiatric patients may actually have treatable autoimmune conditions. But what happens to the newly sane?”
schizophrenia
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The Voice in Your Head
The Hearing Voices Movement is reshaping our understanding of hallucination — and what it means to be “mad.”
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The Unreliable Reader
In Esmé Weijun Wang’s book of personal essays, “The Collected Schizophrenias,” it’s the reader, not the writer, who is an unreliable narrator.
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How Do You Get Help When No One Believes You?
“Asylum” technically means “a place of safety or refuge,” but that’s not now many psychiatric in-patients experience their time on psych wards.
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We Need to Talk About Madness: A Reading List
Talking about it is terrifying, but not talking about it is deadly.
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“My Son Is Schizophrenic. The ‘Reforms’ That I Worked for Have Worsened His Life.” — Paul Gionfriddo, The Washington Post More from The Washington Post
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Rethinking schizophrenia as a brain disorder that requires medication, and recognizing that part of the cure is looking at the social factors that cause mental breakdowns: By the time I met her, Susan was a success story. She was a student at the local community college. She had her own apartment, and she kept it […]
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A daughter recounts the difficult experience of getting her bipolar father the help he needed to get better: I could feel everyone getting tired. The emergency-screening service kept sending the same patient to the psychiatric hospital, only to see him again the following week. The hospital had to baby-sit for a man who refused to […]