The Collected Schizophrenias

My 3 highlights

• When asked, “What do people who live successfully with schizophrenia have in common?” for an awareness-raising social media campaign, Dr. Ashish Bhatt answered, “Often those persons who live successfully with schizophrenia are ones who have positive prognostic factors, which include good premorbid functioning, later age of symptom onset, sudden symptom onset, higher education, good support system, early diagnosis and treatment, medication adherence, and longer periods of minimal or absent symptoms between episodes.”

• Some people dislike diagnoses, disagreeably calling them boxes and labels, but I’ve always found comfort in preexisting conditions; I like to know that I’m not pioneering an inexplicable experience.

• Chaédria LaBouvier’s work on the concept of “using beauty and style in direct, political ways that subvert dehumanizing expectations