Albert Camus has a quote that’s often thrown around the mental illness community. “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal,” he says. If that isn’t an apt description of the lives of people with mental illness, nothing is.
I have lived with schizophrenia for almost nine years. In that time, I’ve gone from thinking I was a prophet on a mission to save the world, seeing connections and experiencing paranoia to the degree that I couldn’t even enter a grocery store, to an almost normally functioning member of society, with little to no indication that I’m ill.
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