I Know With a Sane Mind When I’m Going Insane
This was my son’s answer when I was questioning him, trying desperately to find out what was going on in his mind. Why did...
Reconstruction: A Recovery Narrative
When I read recovery stories, I am sometimes challenged by the prospect of thinking about my life in linear terms, "Here are the years...
Surviving Schizophrenia: A Memoir
I was diagnosed with schizophrenia when I was just nineteen. I am forty-three now, and I have recovered – and I use the term...
The Manifesto of a Noncompliant Mental Patient
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.
A Psychiatrist Remembers His Recovery from Schizophrenia
A psychiatrist since 1949, I was psychiatrically hospitalized on December 21, 1963 at New York City's Mt. Sinai Hospital. Â Â I stayed for three months,...
From the Loony Bin To Stand-Up Comedy
I was sixteen and going on seventeen and I had never gone crazy before. Â I think the most startling aspect of it is how...
