Biography: Why I Think The Way I Do.

1/8 A refrigerator magnet that can be purchased online shows Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz seated next to Alice from Alice in Wonderland with the caption, “I’ve seen some weird shit.” As a parent of a child with extremely early-onset psychosis, that magnet attracts me. One get looks of disbelief when telling others, even professionals with terminal degrees, that a child is hearing and seeing things that are not there. The general belief among many is that it is impossible, because schizophrenia spectrum disorders first appear in the late teens or early twenties. So seeing and reading a journal article by a German neuroscientist, Johannes Lemke of the Institute for Human Genetics at University Hospital Leipzig, about children like my now adult daughter was affirming in an empirical way that offers of prayers and unsolicited advice were not. He found a gene mutation (i.e., GRIN2A null variants) that substantially increases the risk of early-onset schizophrenia.

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People with mental illness don't pretend to be depressed. They pretend to be happy. Remember that. Be kind.

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Grief is just love with no place to go. By Jamie Anderson

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Mental illness is real. It isn’t feeling sad. It isn’t self pity or ‘woe is me’. It is illness. Illness so bad it can make you feel you can’t get through another day or hour or minute. And in some cases it is fatal. Never be shamed for talking about what you are going through.

By Matt Haig (@matthaig1)

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"Not since Adolf Hitler blew his brains out in a bunker beneath the garden of the German Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945, have the lives of so many people around the world been so buffeted by the psychosis of a single man."

~ David Rothkopf

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https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/living-in-a-time-of-lunatics-and