ABSTRACT
I have often been fraught with a profound guilt over my diagnosis of schizophrenia…. I had little idea how dehumanizing and humiliating the hospital would be for me…. I felt that I had partly lost my right to stand among humanity…and that for some people I would be forevermore something of a subhuman creature…. Mental health professionals often treated me…as if I were a stranger or alien of sorts, set apart from others by reason of my label.
