Had a student give a presentation on schizophrenia

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Last night my students were still doing extra credit presentations in my lecture periods, and one student gave a great presentation on schizophrenia.

I’ve had a few students do schizophrenia as their presentation topic in the past, but last night was the first time I saw a student break things down into positive, negative and cognitive symptoms. Usually when students do schizophrenia as their topic the only symptoms they really talk about are delusions and hallucinations, oversimplifying the illness.

This student who did the great presentation last night revealed to the class that he has schizophrenia. He said that he talked about it, revealing his diagnosis, because there’s so much stigma surrounding the illness, and he wanted to fight that stigma and show his classmates that people with schizophrenia are regular people.

But yeah, I was very impressed.

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That takes so much courage.

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Yeah, I agree. During the Q&A at the end of his presentation, one of his classmates told him he’s very brave for sharing that with us.

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Stigma is real.

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That’s awesome. :slight_smile: I don’t even know him but I’m proud of him.

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Yeah, and this student is only 18 years old. I think he said he was diagnosed at the age of 14, or maybe he said 15, something like that.

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I think I would have started crying.

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Sounds like a brave thing to do. Kudos

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That’s because your a walkers crisp

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Awesome. Sounds like a brave soul. Kudos to him. Thanks for sharing.

:smiley:

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Wow I could never share my illness like that.

Too afraid if I relapse and people know of my illness n take advantage or mock me. Seriously

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