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Do people diagnosed with schizophrenia deserve organs?
A breath-taking state of affairs Like most people working in the field of mental health, I am well aware of the stigma associated with schizophrenia as well as the appalling 15-20 year reduction in life expectancy that people with this … Continue reading
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Tagged bodies, medicine, mental illness, organ transplants, schizophrenia, stigma
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The Peopled Wound
What does it mean to hear voices that others cannot? (‘auditory verbal hallucinations’ in psychiatric parlance’) Many, perhaps most, would claim it to be a symptom of a brain disease or a mental illness. Indeed, hearing voices is listed in … Continue reading
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Tagged Hearing the Voice, Madness and psychopathology, schizophrenia, trauma, voice-hearing
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