This request for an interview was approved by SZAdmin via an email communication on 10/20/2015
Hello everyone,
I am a masters of social work student from VA who is in a class about the DSM. We were recently given an assignment about conducting an informal interview with a person who is living with schizophrenia in order to understand their life experiences and how they cope with schizophrenia. The interview is very informal and has very few questions. It is mostly just an opportunity to share your story and to inform some upcoming social workers about what you think is important about schizophrenia. The goal of this presentation is to highlight the personal impact of schizophrenia as opposed to only focusing on the clinical diagnostic criteria and symptoms. Your identity will remain anonymous unless you prefer otherwise, and I can even let you know about how the presentation goes. The interview can be done via email or chat. If you would like to share your narrative, please let me know.
I would be willing to do an interview too, but my diagnosis is technically psychosis NOS. in the words of my doctor, “you have schizophrenia, but you also had a brain tumor once, so you can’t technically be diagnosed with schizophrenia.”
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