How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected How I Manage Schizophrenia
When the world shut down, managing schizophrenia was not at the top of my list of worries. My psychiatrist, however, was steps ahead of me ...
Mindy Tsai’s schizophrenia surfaced at age 30. Symptom-free for 10 years now, she shares her personal and non-clinical perspective on schizophrenia in her book Becoming Whole, A Memoir. She is passionate about patient advocacy and clinical research. Tsai lives in Massachusetts and works at a digital health consultancy. She enjoys food, books, salsa, piano, walking, and hiking. Connect with Tsai at her website or on Twitter.
When the world shut down, managing schizophrenia was not at the top of my list of worries. My psychiatrist, however, was steps ahead of me ...
I only knew one perspective in the first 8 years of living with schizophrenia, and that was my own ...
What everyone probably knows is that people with schizophrenia experience hallucinations. The voices I heard sounded oddly real ...
I never had a hearing problem until schizophrenia surfaced in my life. Medically, my ears were completely functional. One day, I heard knocking sounds from my front door ...
Before the age of 30, I was healthy without needing any medication and never had to understand the idea of side effects from medicine ...
More than once, I shared about having schizophrenia on a first date. I didn’t intentionally bring it up, but I didn’t avoid it either ...