>>11627121>schizophrenia is the extreme creative/artistic brain?ABSOLUTELY NOT. Stop glorifying SERIOUS AND INCURABLE MENTAL ILLNESSES.
Not everyone with schizofrenia is a genius.
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Sharing the reality of schizophrenia
A storytelling project benefits patients and enlightens audiences
By Tori DeAngelis
February 2018, Vol 49, No. 2
Print version: page 22
Sharing the reality of schizophrenia
Mary Langford, 60, acted in the television shows "Murder One" and "Ally McBeal," served as a personal assistant to bestselling novelist Sidney Sheldon and film critic Leonard Maltin, performed stand-up comedy and worked at a celebrity-booking agency.
She also has schizoaffective disorder, a condition she developed at age 53 after a period of intense personal stress. Marked by hallucinations and delusions, disorganized thinking, depression and mania, her symptoms came on so swiftly that her family immediately had her hospitalized. From there, she lived in a halfway house, and when 11 rounds of electroshock therapy failed to relieve her symptoms, she drove her car off a cliff, breaking her back.
In April, Emily Robinson, whose mom Cindy was diagnosed with Schizophrenia in her early 20s, created a project called You Are In This World to document her mother's ups and downs with the disorder. Through the project, Emily shares photos, videos and frank posts about her family's experiences -- from both the perspective of a caregiver and someone with the disorder.
"Imagine all of the stress of your day and then put some negative voices telling you nasty things," Emily said. "The chaos of that in your mind would be enough to make anyone feel abused inside of their body.
