I don’t want mental illness to be all doom and gloom. I mean, maybe it is. It’s really hard. In the case of schizophrenia, there are hallucinations and delusions and paranoia. My anxiety makes me feel like many things are impossible. My depression makes me feel like a loser.

But I am happy. Most of the time. And I think that’s kind of the point.

Friends with schizophrenia and I have discussed how we want to write about different things. (I think I’ve mentioned this on this blog before.) How we s...