Place me in a high-stress environment with no ability to control my surroundings or my schedule, and I will rapidly begin to decompen-sate. Being able to work for myself, while still challenging, allows for greater flexibility in my schedule, and exerts less pressure on my mind. Like Saks, I am high-functioning, but I’m a high-functioning person with an un predictable and low-functioning illness. I may not be the “appropriate” type of crazy. Sometimes, my mind does fracture, leaving me frightened of poison in my tea or corpses in the parking lot. But then it reassembles, and I am once again a
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