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The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang is a collection of essays about schizophrenia written by a woman with schizoaffective disorder. It’s fascinating! I was initially interested because schizophrenia is often conflated with one of my diagnoses, Dissociative Identity Disorder, so I wanted to learn more about the similarities and differences. This book was also recommended for Gemini readers and reading a book recommended for your zodiac sign is a prompt for this month’s Orilium Magical Readathon . There’s a lot packed into each essay and the book makes you think about topics such as involuntary commitment (when does the community’s right to safety take over an individual’s right to bodily autonomy?), whether the mentally ill should have children, and whether colleges and universities should be allowed to kick out the mentally ill to reduce liability or should have to accommodate them under the ADA. The last essay even brings up questions around mental illness and magic. I could really feel for a lot of what Esmé Weijun Wang has gone through. This is a great book for anyone interested in the topic and anyone that battles mental illness. The author reads the book and she is a bit monotone and sometimes mispronounces words, but the writing makes up for it. Definitely check this five star read out!