Todas las esquizofrenias

Esmé Weijun Wang was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder of the bipolar type in 2013, eight years after she began experiencing hallucinations. Despite being able to lead a normal life, she would suddenly be hit by psychotic episodes that caused a truly overwhelming terror that forced her to cover the mirrors to avoid seeing her face, or persuaded her that she was dead, or that spiders were killing her. pierced the brain, or that an android had supplanted her husband. Written with tremendous insight and unwavering honesty, Esmé Weijun Wang recounts her story and sheds light on the illness by examining it both from an objective point of view and from her own intimate experience, revealing what schizophrenia feels like from within. Based on his own diagnosis and the many manifestations of schizophrenia in his life, Wang reflects on the subject from very different angles, ranging from the labels we use to talk about mental illness to the way he dresses or puts on makeup to appear as "high-functioning," from the risks of institutionalization to how post-traumatic stress disorder and Lyme disease aggravated her condition.