![]() ![]() There are all kinds of ways in which I feel that I am starting off a couple of steps behind everybody else, and in order to move a few steps ahead, I - for example - put on red lipstick before I leave the house, and that may seem like an odd way to make up for suffering from delusions and hallucinations, but that is the way I do that. because I do kind of use it as a way to defend against people believing that I'm not worth talking to, or interacting with. I talk about fashion as costuming, or fashion as armor, I talk about the way I use Yale, a place that I had gone to school, as a kind of defense. I think a lot of what I talk about is the way that I move around in the world in a way that seems to be defensive. Review: 'The Collected Schizophrenias,' by Esm Weijun Wang NONFICTION: Esm Weijun Wang examines her health problems with a poet's gimlet eye and a researcher's rigor. So even being able to tell my own story through this book is something that I'm aware gives me a lot of privilege. ![]() I'm aware of how people have a lot of stigma toward other people who have the same diagnosis as I do, but who may not quote-unquote function as well as I do. The reason I use it is that I'm very aware of my own sense of self-stigma. I feel like the phrase "high-functioning" is extremely tricky. Shots - Health News Father Of 2 Sons With Schizophrenia Talks Of His Struggle To Save Them The Collected Schizophrenias, by Esm Weijun Wang (Graywolf).This essay collection explores schizophrenia, the archetypal disorder of lunacy, as a sociopolitical, medical, and personal. ![]()
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