Remove OCD Remove Schizophrenia Remove Welfare
article thumbnail

My Short Stay in a Mental Health Hospital

Beautiful Voyager

Schizophrenia? I told him that unemployment payments felt like going on “welfare,” something I had been brought up to avoid at all costs. Others fidgeted, especially one woman whose entire body seemed to shake, from a pulsing foot to fidgety hands. I wondered. I guessed at her diagnosis as well. Schizo-affective disorder? I wondered.