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Bethany Yeiser

Goodreads Author

Born

in Arlington Heights, The United States

Website

http://www.bethanyyeiser.com

Twitter

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Genre

Memoir, Psychology, Biography

Member Since

December 2009

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Before her gradual descent into schizophrenia, Bethany Yeiser was a promising university honors student. By her third year at the university, she had published three articles in biochemistry, and was working as a violinist. In 2002, following her junior year of college, she spent three months as a volunteer in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya and Lagos, Nigeria, living in poverty. After her return from Africa, she had her first psychotic break. Because of undiagnosed and untreated mental illness, she was no longer able to focus on her studies. The insidious emergence of schizophrenia led her on a path away from the university and into a life of delusion and isolation. In 2003, Bethany left college, only to become homeless for four years. Eventua ...more