In our first video from the author of The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness, Saks explains what it’s like to have a major mental illness:
Her symptoms began as a teenager:
More about Saks:
Elyn Saks is an expert in mental health law and a winner of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, which she used to create the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics. She is also Associate Dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School. Saks lives with schizophrenia and has chronicled her experience with the illness in her award-winning, best-selling autobiography, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness.
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