Today was the first day of a months-long disability leave.

A journalist interviewed me early in the pandemic, when I was working from home. She asked me a bunch of questions about how it felt to be living with schizophrenia in a pandemic. And at the time, I didn’t think it was any harder for me than it was for anyone else. I was paranoid, yes, but so is everyone else. Everyone I know is terrified of getting sick.

After about five months of working from home, I was asked to return to the ...