One disorder: how to live with mental characteristics. Belyat Alina

When it comes to mental disorders, people often become uneasy. There are still stereotypes that people with mental illness see aliens and hear voices, and if you contact a psychiatrist, you will be registered and will not take any job. This book shows that everything is completely wrong. Mental illnesses have a different degree - from simple phobia to paranoid schizophrenia, and can happen with almost everyone. “One disorder” is not a reference to mental disorders, but a collection of frank stories of people about what is happening to them, how they cope with this, how they communicate with loved ones, work, dream and lead a full life, despite the disease. Alina Belyat, the author of the podcast “One Disorder”, collected these stories for two years in order to divide the topic of mental disorders and show that a person is not only his diagnosis. Stories are accompanied by professional comments by psychiatrist Alexei Pavlichenko, who talks about the symptoms of the mentioned diseases, methods of their treatment and coping - strategies that help people with disorders live with dignity.