Sarah An Myers
@sarahanmy.bsky.social
Schizophrenia topics at Psychology Today. Working on a memoir about schizoaffective disorder. MA behavioral neuroscience from UMSL. Notes on healing.
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Sarah An Myers
@sarahanmy.bsky.social
· Feb 14
Thriving with Schizoaffective Disorder – Sarah An Myers | Mental Health Recovery Short Film
YouTube video by OC87 Recovery Diaries
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Our documentary focusing on thriving with schizoaffective disorder is now live.
Without director Glenn Holsten from @freshfly-films.bsky.social & Gabe Nathan, founder of OC87 Recovery Diaries, this wouldn't have been possible.
We want to inspire, motivate, & grow.
youtu.be/JfAfq-qp9oI?...
Without director Glenn Holsten from @freshfly-films.bsky.social & Gabe Nathan, founder of OC87 Recovery Diaries, this wouldn't have been possible.
We want to inspire, motivate, & grow.
youtu.be/JfAfq-qp9oI?...
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Baker & Taylor, one of the largest distributors for print library books in America, is closing down.
Libraries are reeling after a major distributor shutdown.
This Thursday brings bad news for book lovers. Baker & Taylor, one of the largest distributors for print library books in America, is closing down—and throwing the distribution pipeline into (a…
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November 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Baker & Taylor, one of the largest distributors for print library books in America, is closing down.
I tried to have fun last night. I bought some film with cute little ghosts on it from my film shop. It was fun even if moving through a huge crowd cause me to shake and stun the whole night!!
November 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I tried to have fun last night. I bought some film with cute little ghosts on it from my film shop. It was fun even if moving through a huge crowd cause me to shake and stun the whole night!!
This has been happening for 10 to 15 years for different memories, and i thought it was so normal and was simultaneously so ashamed I never brought it up to anyone. Traveling to countries where violence is the norm is more comforting to me. Having pure fun is not.
Malala writes how weed brought back memories of getting shot. I understand. Last night I did a simple thing by going to the famous NYC Halloween parade. I had a lot of fun. But then I couldn't sleep until 9am. I had flashbacks of tear gassed protests, being drunk, drugged, and alone in the city.
November 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
This has been happening for 10 to 15 years for different memories, and i thought it was so normal and was simultaneously so ashamed I never brought it up to anyone. Traveling to countries where violence is the norm is more comforting to me. Having pure fun is not.
Malala writes how weed brought back memories of getting shot. I understand. Last night I did a simple thing by going to the famous NYC Halloween parade. I had a lot of fun. But then I couldn't sleep until 9am. I had flashbacks of tear gassed protests, being drunk, drugged, and alone in the city.
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Malala writes how weed brought back memories of getting shot. I understand. Last night I did a simple thing by going to the famous NYC Halloween parade. I had a lot of fun. But then I couldn't sleep until 9am. I had flashbacks of tear gassed protests, being drunk, drugged, and alone in the city.
I hate Halloween. Not only does it remind me of my hallucinations or put me on a constant cortisol high, the decorations are made with dirty plastic and everything feels gross to the toych! Both my deep and superficial sides are not happy with this holiday.
October 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I hate Halloween. Not only does it remind me of my hallucinations or put me on a constant cortisol high, the decorations are made with dirty plastic and everything feels gross to the toych! Both my deep and superficial sides are not happy with this holiday.
Me as a relaxed person who has schizoaffective disorder! With my sun hat and film camera in a city garden. Im so healthy!
October 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Me as a relaxed person who has schizoaffective disorder! With my sun hat and film camera in a city garden. Im so healthy!
This week I walked 21 miles!
October 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
This week I walked 21 miles!
I haven't had psychosis since I came back from my vacation in Mexico at the beginning of September. This is longest streak that I can remember of relaxed, sustained health. Maybe I should write a book and get a podcast.... oh wait! I did and co-host one! Just not at this moment lol. Need an agent...
October 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I haven't had psychosis since I came back from my vacation in Mexico at the beginning of September. This is longest streak that I can remember of relaxed, sustained health. Maybe I should write a book and get a podcast.... oh wait! I did and co-host one! Just not at this moment lol. Need an agent...
Looking for some contributors to my Psychology Today blog! If you do research in psychosis, hallucinations, HiTOP, altered states, schizophrenia, and the like... let's talk! My DMs are open
September 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Looking for some contributors to my Psychology Today blog! If you do research in psychosis, hallucinations, HiTOP, altered states, schizophrenia, and the like... let's talk! My DMs are open
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Western medicine typically views anyone who admits to being told what to do by disembodied voices as suffering from psychosis. But that is not the case everywhere – so what can we learn from those who treat these hallucinations differently? www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The places where 'hearing voices' is seen as a good thing
Western medicine views hearing disembodied voices as a symptom of psychosis. But that's not the case everywhere.
www.bbc.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Western medicine typically views anyone who admits to being told what to do by disembodied voices as suffering from psychosis. But that is not the case everywhere – so what can we learn from those who treat these hallucinations differently? www.bbc.com/future/artic...
When I was 14 during my first stay at a mental hospital, a girl my age with an infant said she checked herself in to get a break.
Sometimes we think the mental hospital is the place to get those breaks. But now I take those breaks through travel and feeling/looking my best with people I love.
Sometimes we think the mental hospital is the place to get those breaks. But now I take those breaks through travel and feeling/looking my best with people I love.
September 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
When I was 14 during my first stay at a mental hospital, a girl my age with an infant said she checked herself in to get a break.
Sometimes we think the mental hospital is the place to get those breaks. But now I take those breaks through travel and feeling/looking my best with people I love.
Sometimes we think the mental hospital is the place to get those breaks. But now I take those breaks through travel and feeling/looking my best with people I love.
In the past week I had 1 depressive episode, followed by a psychotic one, followed by hypomania, then depression for a day, now I am neutral. Throughout it all I managed to care for 4 dogs, cook dinner 4x a week, walk 15 miles. Im learning how to balance my once harrowing schizoaffective disorder.
This week I had a major depressive episode. Walked 2 mi first. Couldn't move for the next 2 days, stayed up all night 1 day, read books, walked dogs 3 miles, and now today I feel in good spirits but im really bored. I feel like im not doing enough. Don't really know what all this means.
September 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
In the past week I had 1 depressive episode, followed by a psychotic one, followed by hypomania, then depression for a day, now I am neutral. Throughout it all I managed to care for 4 dogs, cook dinner 4x a week, walk 15 miles. Im learning how to balance my once harrowing schizoaffective disorder.
Solo traveling is not always easy for people with a psychotic disorder. Excessive spending is so common with mania. I was finally able to responsibly save up for a fun trip without going into credit card debt! I carry my pill box at all times. Traveling with mental illness can be done!
September 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Solo traveling is not always easy for people with a psychotic disorder. Excessive spending is so common with mania. I was finally able to responsibly save up for a fun trip without going into credit card debt! I carry my pill box at all times. Traveling with mental illness can be done!
Should I enjoy this nice 75 degree weather or re-read my memoir so I can launch into another depressive episode? My natural personality leans toward one more than the other, and it is the one that does not make any sense.
August 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Should I enjoy this nice 75 degree weather or re-read my memoir so I can launch into another depressive episode? My natural personality leans toward one more than the other, and it is the one that does not make any sense.
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Our invited commentary on Andrea Raballo and colleagues discussion of our work on the revised ipseity-disorder model is now published. We clarify some potential misunderstandings and highlight outstanding issues in phenomenological self-disturbance research. Freely available through link below.
The Revised Ipseity-Disturbance Model of Schizophrenia and the Nature of Self-Disorder: A Commentary on Raballo et al. (2025)
Alterations of selfhood (self-disorders: SDs) have long been emphasized as central features of the schizophrenia-spectrum. In the last two decades, empiric
academic.oup.com
August 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Our invited commentary on Andrea Raballo and colleagues discussion of our work on the revised ipseity-disorder model is now published. We clarify some potential misunderstandings and highlight outstanding issues in phenomenological self-disturbance research. Freely available through link below.
How come in all the reading and psychology studying and degree acquiring ive done no one has ever pointed me to Foucault's History of Madness. The hell? Do we not teach the postmodernist infiltration in science either? That was a joke. But seriously.
August 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
How come in all the reading and psychology studying and degree acquiring ive done no one has ever pointed me to Foucault's History of Madness. The hell? Do we not teach the postmodernist infiltration in science either? That was a joke. But seriously.
This week I had a major depressive episode. Walked 2 mi first. Couldn't move for the next 2 days, stayed up all night 1 day, read books, walked dogs 3 miles, and now today I feel in good spirits but im really bored. I feel like im not doing enough. Don't really know what all this means.
August 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This week I had a major depressive episode. Walked 2 mi first. Couldn't move for the next 2 days, stayed up all night 1 day, read books, walked dogs 3 miles, and now today I feel in good spirits but im really bored. I feel like im not doing enough. Don't really know what all this means.
Reposted by Sarah An Myers
New study finds that COVID-19 vaccine misinformation among Arabic-speaking communities in Australia was driven by information gaps, fear of side effects, and mistrust in authorities, and was mainly spread through friends and family via image-based content.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Vaccine misinformation among Arabic-speakers in Australia and the audience and appetite for a game-based intervention
Vaccine misinformation has been increasingly pervasive since the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a particular challenge among Arabic-speaking communities du…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
New study finds that COVID-19 vaccine misinformation among Arabic-speaking communities in Australia was driven by information gaps, fear of side effects, and mistrust in authorities, and was mainly spread through friends and family via image-based content.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Where are all the literary people on here
August 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Where are all the literary people on here
Identity writing is important because it exposes history's politics and the fight over land. Whose land we belong on, if any at all on this Earth? Sometimes we have no say. Immigrants only have America, the land of the free.
New essays of mine up.
www.vietnameseboatpeople.org/post/lost-in...
New essays of mine up.
www.vietnameseboatpeople.org/post/lost-in...
Lost in Origin
TW: contains topics on abuse and suicidal thoughtsGrowing up, my mother put out bamboo on the kitchen counter for the second new moon of each year. She collected them more like a hoarding habit than a...
www.vietnameseboatpeople.org
August 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Identity writing is important because it exposes history's politics and the fight over land. Whose land we belong on, if any at all on this Earth? Sometimes we have no say. Immigrants only have America, the land of the free.
New essays of mine up.
www.vietnameseboatpeople.org/post/lost-in...
New essays of mine up.
www.vietnameseboatpeople.org/post/lost-in...
Interesting paper!! I just wrote about ML helping to predict severe mental illness relapses or med changes but I am not a scholar and only know enough to talk to the public. This needs more exposure too
I am thrilled that my paper on machine learning in science and the myth of theory-free inference has been accepted for publication in Erkenntnis. The paper remains available for download as a preprint through the archives. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26075/1/Andr...
August 8, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Interesting paper!! I just wrote about ML helping to predict severe mental illness relapses or med changes but I am not a scholar and only know enough to talk to the public. This needs more exposure too
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Took the day off to paint some fishies
August 8, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Took the day off to paint some fishies
Being a writer and having writer friends means you have to buy everyone's books. Great for my sad little bank account.
August 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Being a writer and having writer friends means you have to buy everyone's books. Great for my sad little bank account.
New post about how machine learning can help psychosis instead of hurt it.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/livi...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/livi...
Could AI Make Schizophrenia Treatment More Effective?
How machine learning is discovering who will continue their drug treatments.
www.psychologytoday.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
New post about how machine learning can help psychosis instead of hurt it.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/livi...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/livi...
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A growing list already! Thanks to everyone supporting this community by sharing their resources :)
You can add yours by sending them to @kathleenwreardon.bsky.social or @miriforbes.bsky.social
www.hitop-system.org/hitop-teachi...
You can add yours by sending them to @kathleenwreardon.bsky.social or @miriforbes.bsky.social
www.hitop-system.org/hitop-teachi...
June 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
A growing list already! Thanks to everyone supporting this community by sharing their resources :)
You can add yours by sending them to @kathleenwreardon.bsky.social or @miriforbes.bsky.social
www.hitop-system.org/hitop-teachi...
You can add yours by sending them to @kathleenwreardon.bsky.social or @miriforbes.bsky.social
www.hitop-system.org/hitop-teachi...