Paranoia and Schizophrenia What does paranoia feel like? How does paranoia affect our day-to-day life? Does social media affect your paranoia? What are some of our coping skills/grounding techniques that help with paranoia? How does misunderstanding of paranoia lead to further discrimination and stigma for people living with psychosis? In this episode of Schizophrenia [...]
What Meds Do We Take? In this episode of Schizophrenia and the City, Michelle Hammer and Cecilia McGough answer the very commonly asked question “What meds do they take?” Well, not quite. Rather, they discuss the reasons why they don’t typically answer that question. People who ask that question are usually asking because they [...]
Schizophrenia Is Not A Look In this episode of Schizophrenia and the City, Michelle Hammer and Cecilia McGough put makeup on each other and talk about, well, life. Michelle didn’t put makeup on when she was younger. She was partly insecure not knowing how to put on makeup, and the other part was paranoid [...]
Schizophrenia and Relationships In this episode of Schizophrenia and the City, Michelle Hammer from Schizophrenic.NYC and Cecilia McGough from Students With Psychosis discuss relationships. Even before the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, isolation has been a prevalent issue in the psychosis community. For Cecilia, just getting out of bed was hard enough and led [...]
LGBTQ2S+ & Schizophrenia Why is it prevalent to talk about psychosis within the LGBTQ2S+ community? How are our coming out stories different or the same as our opening up stories about psychosis? What can the Psychosis community learn about language from the LGBTQ2S+ community? What additional barriers to care or additional stigma is presented [...]
