I’m Elyn Saks and this is what it’s like to live with schizophrenia

" Elyn Saks first started noticing that something was wrong when she was 16. One day, and without reason, she suddenly left her classroom and started walking home. It turned into an agonizing journey in which she believed all the houses in her neighborhood were transmitting hostile and insulting messages directly into her brain. Five years later, while attending law school at Oxford, she experienced her first complete schizophrenic break. Saks struggled over the course of the next decade, but she came through thanks to medication, therapy, and the support of friends and family..."

http://io9.com/5983970/im-elyn-saks-and-this-is-what-its-like-to-live-with-schizophrenia