How Paranoid Schizophrenia Impacts My Life

Allie Burke first started seeing shadows when she was three years old but it wasn’t until she was in her mid-twenties that she was formally diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

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0:00 Allie's Hallucinations
1:18 Day to Day Realities
3:45 Growing Up with Paranoid Schizophrenia
5:45 Using the Internet to Connect with Others
6:23 Medication
7:37 Connecting With Others

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