Recent Recovery Stories
Surviving Schizophrenia: A Memoir
February 21, 2012
Louise Gillett I was diagnosed with schizophrenia when I was just nineteen. I am forty-three now, and I have recovered – and I use the term ‘recovery’ in its fullest sense. I have been free of medication and free of …
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The Manifesto of a Noncompliant Mental Patient
February 14, 2012
Aubrey Ellen Shomo I see it everywhere: People with mental illness need medication. It sounds reasonable. Today, there are even political organizations that seek to make it easy to force a person to take it.
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A Psychiatrist Remembers His Recovery from Schizophrenia
January 23, 2012
Nathaniel Lehrman, M.D. A psychiatrist since 1949, I was psychiatrically hospitalized on December 21, 1963 at New York City’s Mt. Sinai Hospital. I stayed for three months, was diagnosed correctly as “schizophrenic reaction, paranoid type,” and recovered fully.
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From the Loony Bin To Stand-Up Comedy
January 14, 2012
Andrew Hays I was sixteen and going on seventeen and I had never gone crazy before. I think the most startling aspect of it is how utterly unable to acknowledge it I was. Even after.
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