What’s It Like To Have A Psychotic Episode?


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Being not normal is a new normal. — Jon Ronson

Part 2 of a TED Radio Hour episode The Unquiet Mind.

About Elyn Saks’ TED Talk

“Is it OK if we totally rabble your office?” It’s a doubt Elyn Saks once asked her doctor, and it wasn’t a joke. A authorised scholar, Saks came brazen in 2007 with her possess story of schizophrenia, tranquil by drugs and therapy though ever-present. In this absolute talk, she asks us to see people with mental illness clearly, overtly and compassionately.

About Elyn Saks

Saks asks confidant questions about how multitude treats people with mental illness. As a mental health law academician and writer, she speaks for a rights of mentally ill people. It’s a gray area: Too often, society’s initial incentive is to make decisions on their behalf. But it’s a sleazy slope from in loco parentis to a rejection of simple tellurian rights. Saks has brilliantly argued for some-more liberty — and in many cases, for a replacement of simple tellurian dignity.

In 2007, low into her career, she forsaken a bombshell — her autobiography, The Center Cannot Hold. In it, she reveals a abyss of her possess schizophrenia, now tranquil by drugs and therapy. Clear-eyed and honest about her possess condition, a book lent her new ammunition in a query to strengthen a rights and grace of a mentally ill.

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