Living With Schizophrenia: Coffee and Friends [Well.Blogs.NYTimes.com]

Samantha Sangenito 10/24/144:00 AM

I have a hard time making friends.

Getting to trust people well enough to call them a friend takes a lot of work. It’s especially hard when you are living with schizophrenia and think everyone is making fun of you.

Schizophrenia is the devil on your shoulder that keeps whispering in your ear and, no matter what you try, the little demon won’t stop. He hasn’t stopped in the almost nine years I’ve lived with the illness, and he’s not about to stop now. He’s just quieted down a bit. I’d call him my companion but that would imply a degree of friendship, and there’s no way in hell I’m the little devil’s friend.

[For more of this story, written by Michael Hedrick, go to http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/...7627&tntemail0=y]

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