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My grandma has bipolar paranoid schizophrenia.

For some unknown reason I have never thought of it as a very big deal (I actually think it is funny).  Maybe I've never had a problem with it because she has never targeted me.

When she isn't taking her medication she is a lot more interesting...  She has even been known to tell a dirty joke or two *gasp*

I was on some random health website, probably researching my ankle fiasco, when I saw a link titled "early warning signs of schizophrenia."  Thinking this would be HILARIOUS, I clicked it, and discovered I have a lot of them.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not schizophrenic... (or am I?  Thinking you're not schizophrenic is one of the signs of schizophrenia!)  How confusing is that?  Now you probably think that YOU TOO are, aren't, are, aren't, are, aren't schizophrenic as well.

I jokingly told James that I'm schizophrenic and he laughed, then I read him the list of early warning signs, and he laughed... less... LOL

Anyway, the point is that I fit into so many of the categories I figured something might actually be wrong with me.  So I signed up for the (free!) counseling services on campus.  A month later I went in to see my new (doctoral student) shrink.

He decided I was depressed and recommended pills.  I said no.  He said I should change my Masters program to something else, I said I'd consider it.  He said I should watch two videos on ted.com, I agreed to that.  They were pretty good videos. 

http://www.ted.com/speakers/brene_brown.html

Anyway, I don't think my psychologist thinks I'm schizophrenic, so that's good.