{"id":5828,"date":"2015-04-15T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T05:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=5828"},"modified":"2019-03-26T12:35:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T07:05:28","slug":"fallen-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/fallen-standing\/","title":{"rendered":"How I live \u2012 and try to die \u2012 with schizophrenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1390032444644322\/\">Fallen, Standing: My Life as a Schizophrenist<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/valresh.com\/\">Reshma Valliappan<\/a>. This was first excerpted on <a href=\"http:\/\/scroll.in\/article\/703383\/How-I-live-%E2%80%92-and-try-to-die-%E2%80%92-with-schizophrenia\">Scroll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when I was 22. I could hardly pronounce the darn word. I had no clue what it meant but I know that people were chasing me. There were these bad guys, a whole bunch of them, bad vampires who were trying to kill me. They would follow me everywhere I went. They would stand outside my house. They would prey on me in college. I could see them even with my eyes closed. I could feel their presence right outside my window.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article where it was originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/scroll.in\/article\/703383\/How-I-live-\u2012-and-try-to-die-\u2012-with-schizophrenia\">the Scroll<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from Fallen, Standing: My Life as a Schizophrenist by Reshma Valliappan. This was first excerpted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":5829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,1,382],"tags":[303,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-5828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog-roll","8":"category-categories","9":"category-mental-health-and-sexuality","10":"tag-mental-health","11":"tag-sexualities"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5828"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16421,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions\/16421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}