![]() Wang’s most recent work describes what mental. The Collected Schizophrenias is a courageous and important piece of literature that looks at the complexity of mental illness through an intersectional lens. 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. Wang’s transparency and eloquent writing style was truly a breath of fresh air for me, a person who also identifies as mentally ill. 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. Esmé Weijun Wang The Collected Schizophrenias Taschenbuch 27. 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. Students With Psychosis (studentswithpsychosis) on Instagram: 'It was so wonderful getting to meet Esmé Weijun Wang who is the author of The Border of Paradise. ![]() Shots - Health News Father Of 2 Sons With Schizophrenia Talks Of His Struggle To Save Them ![]()
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