The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
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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Invisible gorillas and other things we don’t notice
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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What group therapy did for me
A couple of months after my second psychosis, when the medication had settled in and I’d stopped drooling all the
The madness of Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton is one of our greatest scientists to ever live. He promoted the empirical method, where ideas had
Insane in one language but sane in another
My mother tongue is Swedish, but since I started moving countries at the age of 16, I have lived most
Oblique strategies for lateral thinking
For years I’ve been fascinated by lateral thinking as a way to solve problems by reasoning in a manner that
How Olanzapine works
Olanzapine, often sold under the brand name Zyprexa, is an atypical antipsychotic which came into use during the 1990s. It’s
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom
Many people would describe Soren Kierkegaard as our first existentialist philosopher. He wrote about the topics of philosophy, Christianity, and
All those beautiful city lights
During my first psychosis, I spent my days trawling around the city chasing clues that would explain my heightened state
No one cares about crazy people
I’m reading No one cares about crazy people by Ron Powers. Both his sons developed schizophrenia, and one of them