On Writing: Writing about schizophrenia

Heather Jackson posing as my character Mercedes Masterson. A badass private detective who has a long history of schizophrenic symptoms.

I’m currently working on a short story for class and a lot of years of research, family research, and stuff kinda culminated into this short story. The main character is one I’ve been writing since 2005 off and on. She suffers with mental health issues akin to schizophrenia, in fact she has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and anxiety, though in the st...