Hey everybody!
As promised, here is another book excerpt from this month’s guest Esmé Weijun Wang about living with Schizophrenia:
Dr. M told me that the longer the episode lasted, and the more frequently the episodes occurred, the more damage was occurring to my brain.
It is disconcerting for anyone to be told that her brain is being damaged by an uncontrollable illness.
It might have been especially disconcerting to me because my brain has been one of my more valuable assets since childhood.
I began to read at two; I was the first student, boy or girl, to finish every available math textbook in my elementary school; I went to Yale and Stanford, and graduated from Stanford with a 3.99 GPA, after which I took a job as a lab manager and researcher at one of the university’s brain-imaging labs.
My anxiety about a loss of gray matter fed a variety of delusions: one afternoon I frantically called my husband at work to babble about spiders eating holes in my brain. (Page 29)
We will hear Esmé’s open candor on living with schizophrenia in this month’s training.
Have a great week!
Peace,
Ryan
