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  • gainin a phd when u have schizophrenia

    While doing a bachelor's degree at a London-located university, I experienced disturbing psychiatric symptoms, and my mental health was at a low. I had enrolled for a four-year degree course, yet my delusions and paranoia were devastating. What seemed even more daunting was that I still had a wish to gain a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).
    I was convinced that my fellow students and tutors were out to get me. I believed that the secret service was tapping my phone and that it was a matter of life or death for my cassette player to turn itself off automatically. The symptoms were worse at the end of each year when I took exams, and it was often even a struggle to reach the desk and chair in the university hall where the written examinations were held.
    Richard provides his lived experience of gaining a diagnosis of schizophrenia, living with thoughts that can become so isolating and scary, and achieving the heights of his academic profession.


    WTG

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    Why not?

    I have immense faith in science. I believe we can achieve (almost) anything (barring getting to the edges of the universe or somewhat)

    Of course together with science you need social democracy to benefit the people. With both, all is good.

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