TED Talk: All Kinds of Minds

A lady with schizophrenia shares her experiences. When she is psychotic she has the delusion that she has killed 100 of thousands of people with her thoughts. Its like having a nightmare while you're awake. "Word Salad" when thoughts and words get mixed up, comprehensible. She wrote down her experiences. She has been hospitalized 3 times for her schizophrenia. She had an episode, and was sent to the hospital. She was slammed on a metal table(so hard she saw stars), then strapped down with leather restraints. She was restrained, which is a terrible experience. She is pro-psychiatry, but against restraints. She was trying to get off medication, to prove she wasn't mentally ill and it was just a terrible mistake. She gets excellent treatment, multiple times a week, for many years and many to come.