Schizophrenia: Cordt Winkler lived with the diagnosis for a long time

Schizophrenia: Cordt Winkler lived with the diagnosis for a long time

Cordt Winkler struggled with his schizophrenia diagnosis for a long time. Today the author and festival organizer fights against the stigmatization of people who have experienced psychosis.

What was wrong with me? I turned on the espresso maker without first filling it with water. Lately I’ve often been unfocused, distracted by strange thoughts. Sometimes I felt so confused that I didn’t want to go to college. I was afraid to talk to others. Fear that they will notice that something is wrong with me. In fact, I was afraid that I was no longer normal, but crazy. Like my father, whose psychoses scared me as a child. He was often in the psychiatric ward and given medication to sedate him. But since they had severe side effects, he stopped taking them after a while. And then it started again.

His schizophrenia hung over me like the sword of Damocles.

Source: Stern

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