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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 few people recover to the point where they want to tell their story. Esme Weijun Wang's essays are an exception to this. In a lighthearted…

There's a famous experiment where two teams, one dressed in white and one dressed in black, pass a basketball. Participants count the number of times the team in white passes the ball. More than half of people fail to notice when a person in a…

A couple of months after my second psychosis, when the medication had settled in and I'd stopped drooling all the time, I started group therapy. The hospital arranged it as an IMR-course, which stands for illness management and recovery, and it helps you pave a…

Sir Isaac Newton is one of our greatest scientists to ever live. He promoted the empirical method, where ideas had to be tested for validity, and wrote the Principia Mathematica, which established classical mechanics. What is less well-known is that he struggled with mental illness,…

My mother tongue is Swedish, but since I started moving countries at the age of 16, I have lived most of my life in English. It's the language that's established my adult self. It's also the language in which I went insane. Before I woke…