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Schizophrenia Bulletin Advance Access originally published online on December 9, 2005
Schizophrenia Bulletin 2006 32(2):209-211; doi:10.1093/schbul/sbj032
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Kurt Snyder's Personal Experience with Schizophrenia

Kurt Snyder1,2
2 Website: www.kurtsnyder.net/Schizophrenia.html

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My name is Kurt Snyder, and I have paranoid schizophrenia. I live in Arnold, Maryland, just outside Annapolis, in the United States. I developed schizophrenia gradually over a period of nine years, with the most severe symptoms appearing when I was twenty-eight years old. For most of those years, my family, friends, and colleagues were unaware that I was experiencing any mental problems.

My illness, as is true with all mental illnesses, started in the privacy of my own mind. My thoughts slowly wandered away from the normal range—I began to think less and less about daily life and more about a fantasy created in my mind. I cannot think of anything physical or psychological that could have triggered a change in my mental state. I had wonderful, supportive parents, relatives, and friends, and I had a wonderful childhood.

Somewhere between the ages of nineteen and twenty-one, I was exposed . . . [Full Text of this Article]

1To whom correspondence should be addressed; 1576 Chickasaw Rd., Arnold, MD 21012, e-mail:kurt@kurtsnyder.net.


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