The People With Schizophrenia And Mental State - 1697 Words

Physically, Emily is in her room and her family downstairs, the windows, and doors are all safely shut and no apparent danger poses her other than her own mental state. In her own world, she’s frantically running through a dark and twisted maze, looking for a way out but finding none. John is pushing the old stolen shopping cart down the street in Hollywood, surrounded by normal civilians, but to him everywhere he looks, there are dead bodies and demons collecting souls. If one were to watch these two completely different strangers through their struggles, he/she would be quick to judge and label them ‘crazy’. Elyn Saks, professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry, who was diagnosed with chronic schizophrenia herself, said that â€Å"there are not schizophrenics. 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