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The Collected Schizophrenias

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This book helped me better understand what it is like to live with mental illness and the real life consequences of various treatment avenues. Increased my empathy a million-fold

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Lena Dunham1mo ago

I first discovered Esme Weijun Wang’s work when I was dipping my toe into the world of chronic illness online. She was kind enough to talk to me during the summer of 2017, when I didn’t leave the house because the change to my body was too apparent in my appearance and in the CVS plastic walker I needed to shuffle around. Trapped in a pink bedroom with only my thoughts and the internet, she became a sort of all knowing priestess to me. Her honesty about her life with schizoaffective disorder, co...

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