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Hallucinations Kidnap The Senses In 'The Collected Schizophrenias'

Esmé Weijun Wang's new book is part memoir, part deeply researched work of science about her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder. She says she first noticed her brain was different at age five.
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"Schizophrenia terrifies."

Those are the first two words of , Esmé Weijun Wang's new book — part memoir, part scientific chronicle of her journey towards a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder. She first noticed that her brain worked differently than others, she says, when she was just five or six years old. And then, she says,

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