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Alone in a crowd

October 31, 2021 | Katherine Orfinger

Psychosis can be a very isolating experience.

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A Sparkling Personality

July 15, 2020 | Katherine Orfinger

What do you think of when you hear the words “self-care?”

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Write What You Know

May 2, 2020 | Katherine Orfinger

Yesterday, I got the dreaded, “Hey, where are you?” call from work.

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Stable Is Strange

March 16, 2020 | Katherine Orfinger

Chance and I were sitting on my bedroom floor, coloring a fuzzy poster with markers. It was late, we had hip-hop playing on my speaker, I was getting sleepy, and all I could think was, I’m going insane! I’m going insane!

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The Calm Before the Storm

March 8, 2020 | Katherine Orfinger

“I haven’t heard Henry’s voice in quite a while,” I thought to myself yesterday.

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Mayo Clinic Musings

January 22, 2020 | Katherine Orfinger

At the end of last year, I was deteriorating quickly.

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An Unreliable Narrator

October 23, 2019 | Katherine Orfinger

In high school, my literature class was assigned to read One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

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High-Functioning

October 19, 2019 | Katherine Orfinger

Psychosis is believing my worst thoughts, my own interior monologue taking on a life of its own, physical sensations that don’t line up with reality, fears bigger than the moon, and logic that is completely inexplicable to anyone else.

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Flowers

August 21, 2019 | Katherine Orfinger

Staying up until 5:00 AM the night before you have to do anything is rarely a good idea.

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