An Uncommon Friendship

A memoir about mental illness, love, and friendship

I’m Not Schizophrenic Enough!

Posted by Monique Colver on March 16, 2009

January 28, 2004

We’re watching Law and Order. Another schizophrenic (by which I mean, they’re often on television as “crazy people” who cause damage, mayhem, and death) who is guilty of something or other.

And Stew says, “I’m not schizophrenic enough!”

It’s true. He just doesn’t fit the standard perception of schizophrenia.

We laugh about it. “I don’t think the CIA is after me. I see shadows at night and hear voices in the grocery store! What good is that?”

The schizophrenic on TV says Bill Gates made him do it. We say, “Well, duh. That’s pretty obvious.”

What good is it being nuts if you can’t laugh about it?

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