Reconstruction: A Recovery Narrative

April 2, 2012

Faith Rhyne, CPSS When I read recovery stories, I am sometimes challenged by the prospect of thinking about my life in linear terms, “Here are the years that I was Sick, here are the steps I’ve taken to become Well.”  …
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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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