A Personal Perspective: When diagnosed with schizophrenia, I struggled to find hope. Reading stories of meaningful recovery from schizophrenia inspired me—especially these two.
When I was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2007, I was adamantly opposed to the diagnosis and convinced it was absolutely wrong. I thought I was too strong and too smart to ever have schizophrenia.
Ever since then, I have been medication adherent. Treatment adherence brought me to a level of wellness that enabled me to graduate from college magna cum laude. Ten years ago, I published my memoir, and I established a charitable foundation in 2016 with my former psychiatrist. During a hospitalization that took place soon after the start of law school, her treatment team contacted Yale to confirm that she would not be returning to school . Elyn Saks struggled to find a medication that would enable her to focus on her studies, as the first antipsychotic medication that helped her mind left her unable to read, or even walk normally.
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