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“I learned to preempt the inevitable and excluded myself. I retreated to my solitary spaces before I could be pushed out of the flow of this realer life, this life that glistened all around me, bright and full and inaccessible” (page 72). As someone with a disability, this part word for word just hit me like a ton of bricks.

This book goes beyond what I was taught in PSYCH 101 about schizophrenia, breaking it down in terms of the history and biology/physiology of this mental illness. I’m wondering, while the author talks about the relationship between dopamine and schizophrenia, how it might be related to us going on our phones and messing with our dopamine levels with apps like TikTok… this book has me thinking!!