![]() 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. Just announced as the winner of the 2016 Graywolf Press Non-Fiction Prize for her book of essays, The Collected Schizophrenias. The Border of Paradise is her first novel. So even being able to tell my own story through this book is something that I'm aware gives me a lot of privilege. Esmé Weijun Wang is an award-winning mental health advocate and speaker, as well as a journalist and essayist. 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 ![]()
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