Schizophrenia | Talking about mental health - Episode 18

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"Alice, Brian, Jamie, Martin and Louise all talk about the reality of living with schizophrenia - from the at first strange symptoms they have experienced to the stigma and discrimination they feel people with the diagnosis face.

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"My greatest fear is this brain of mine….The worst thing imaginable is to be terrified of one’s own mind, the very matter that controls all that we are and all that we do and feel."

M. Torrey

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