During a lunch break in 1950, Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, famous for creating our first nuclear reactor, asked a casual

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Thomas Birdsey has schizophrenia. It’s gritty and ugly. While sitting in the public library, he pulls out a knife and

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The experience of snapping into psychosis is easy to confuse with an awakening. In my case, that’s how it first

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In July 1961, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram set up an experiment that has since inspired others and become very famous.

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A lot of delusions come straight from the movies to you. To be fair, you need to borrow ideas from

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While there are stories about people with schizophrenia, there’s not much written by people with schizophrenia. It could be that

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There’s a famous experiment where two teams, one dressed in white and one dressed in black, pass a basketball. Participants

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A couple of months after my second psychosis, when the medication had settled in and I’d stopped drooling all the

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Sir Isaac Newton is one of our greatest scientists to ever live. He promoted the empirical method, where ideas had

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My mother tongue is Swedish, but since I started moving countries at the age of 16, I have lived most

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