![]() ![]() She described a “psychiatric hierarchy” around who could be seen as “high functioning”. Wang also shared other negative experiences in the context of health care, including relapsing because no one did anything about her mood stabilizer levels being low and having her chronic Lyme disease dismissed by a specialist would couldn’t see beyond her mental illness. ![]() ![]() “Rarely did I experience such a radical and visceral imbalance of power as I did as a psychiatric inpatient amid clinicians who knew me only as illness in human form.” ![]() I’ve heard of multiple instances of the same kind of thing happening after student suicide attempts.Īs is the case for far too many of us with serious mental illnesses, involuntary hospitalization was very traumatizing for the author. I suspect that kind of thing happens more than people realize. It took nine years to get a schizoaffective disorder diagnosis, as doctors seemed reluctant to diagnose a primary psychotic disorder.Īfter having two hospitalizations within the space of a year, Stanford asked her to leave, offering her the non-choice of withdrawing voluntarily or having an involuntary medical level recorded permanently on her file. The author was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder while attending Stanford University. In The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Esmé Weijun Wang shares how schizoaffective disorder and, in particular, other people’s reactions to it have affected her life. ![]()
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