"I often say that medicine seems great if you have a broken arm, but if you end up with some more mysterious ailment, or a confusing autoimmune disorder, then you will become obsessed with the color of the coconut water you drink. The more lost I became in terms of my own health, my own mental illness and chronic illness, whether that was named late-stage Lyme disease or dysautonomia, or whether that was named “the mysterious autoimmune disorder that nobody could figure out,” the more I was searching…"
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On feeling certainty of safety when young in “Schizophrenia Terrifies: An Interview with Esmé Weijun Wang” in The Paris Review (2019 Feb 4)
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