Living With Schizoaffective Disorder

Michael David Crawford
April 11, 2003

You may be surprised to hear that I suffer from a devastating and poorly understood mental illness. I'd like to tell you what it's like to live inside my head.

There's hope for people suffering from mental illness. Even if you don't suffer, I want to help you to better understand the many mentally ill people you are likely to encounter as you go through life, and explain why you don't need to shun them. I want to demonstrate that in fact, friendship with the mentally ill can be a rewarding experience.

Read on, and I will tell you how I recovered from schizoaffective disorder - but have not been cured. I will tell you how I learned to live with mental illness every day.

Contents

• Living with Schizoaffective Disorder
• The Best of Both Worlds
• When Did it Happen?
• A Poorly Understood Condition
• Someone You Know is Mentally Ill
• Life on a Roller Coaster
• Melancholia
• The Strange Pill
• A Risky Treatment
• What if Medicine Doesn't Help?
• The Heebie-Jeebies
• Hearing Voices
• Dissociation
• Paranoia
• Geometric Visions
• If You Think You're Mentally Ill
• Therapy
• The Reality Construction Kit
• Why am I Saying All This?
• Recommended Reading

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Copyright © 2003 Michael David Crawford. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted by permission.

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