Not much was changing for her - but everything, I had to believe, was possible for me. “She was the one who had come to this clinic every week for the last decade. “I was the one at the head of the table, visiting,” she writes, subtly implicating the reader who has made the same calculation. She is hired to tell her story to patients at a clinic but flinches when one of them identifies too strongly. If I’m depressed, I skip everything but the lipstick.” These are survival skills, but also, she suggests, concessions to a noxious respectability politics, meant to distinguish her from others who share her diagnosis. I can dress and daub when psychotic and when not psychotic. . . The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays Audio CD Unabridged, Februby Esm Weijun Wang (Author, Reader) 880 ratings Goodreads Choice Award nominee Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 11.39 82 Used from 2.75 40 New from 6.93 2 Collectible from 18. In another essay, “High-Functioning,” she interprets “other signifiers”: “my wedding ring, a referent to the sixteen-year relationship I’ve managed to keep” a makeup routine that is “minimal and consistent. “ ‘I went to Yale’ is shorthand for I have schizoaffective disorder, but I’m not worthless,” she writes. After a second hospitalization, her college washes its hands of her. A precocious young person on a track to success, Wang experiences a manic episode at Yale that leads to her first hospitalization. Wang is a sharp critic of the ways we use badges and prizes to decide who is trusted to tell their own story. The Collected Schizophrenias is a book of personal essays that was the 2016 winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize.
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