Out of the darkness

Mental illness is widespread in the sciences, and graduate students are particularly vulnerable (Nature 556, 5; 2018). ELYN SAKS 'Crazy thoughts' Lawyer and psychoanalyst at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Los Angeles It was 1982, and I was in my first semester a...

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Published in:Nature (London) 2018-05, Vol.557 (7704), p.267-269
Main Author: Sohn, Emily
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Darkness
Mental depression
Mental disorders
Mental health care
Pain
Schizophrenia
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Summary:Mental illness is widespread in the sciences, and graduate students are particularly vulnerable (Nature 556, 5; 2018). ELYN SAKS 'Crazy thoughts' Lawyer and psychoanalyst at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Los Angeles It was 1982, and I was in my first semester as a student at Yale Law School. When my memoir, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, came out in 2007, an administrator on the staffat the University of Southern California Gould School of Law told me that she was glad she didn't know I had schizophrenia when we started going to dinner together. NATHANIEL BORENSTEIN 'My life sucked' Veteran computer scientist and Internet pioneer in Greenbush, Michigan, who helped to create e-mail and the precursor to PayPal.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/d41586-018-05088-y