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Early in her career, Katie Pryal learned that being a professor isn't easy if your brain isn't quite right. I was a junior in college when I finally realized that I was different in a way that my medically inclined parents would call 'clinical.' In these deeply personal, fiery essays, Pryal tells her story of transformation that began the moment she chose to publicly disclose her own mental illness and leave her career in higher education to begin fighting for a better world for people with psychiatric disabilities. The stories she tells are universal: the fear of stigma, the fight for accommodations, and the raw reality of living with mental illness in a world that pushes mental health to the margins. People carelessly call each other schizo and bipolar. A colleague is fired for instability. Pryal learned that, as a psychiatrically disabled person working in higher education, her very livelihood could be stripped away by the groundless suspicions of others. But the problem persists beyond academia. With candor and grace, these essays discuss the disclosure of disabilities, accommodations and accessibility, how to be a good abled friend to a disabled person, the trigger warnings debate, and more. While harrowing at times, Pryal's story is ultimately one of hope. With this memoir, she aims to make higher education--and all of our society--more humane.

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"Pryal writes with a refreshing and raw honesty. -- ""Kate Moretti, New York Times bestselling author"""

Pryal writes with a refreshing and raw honesty. -- Kate Moretti, New York Times bestselling author

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Katie Rose Guest Pryal, J.D., Ph.D., is an IPPY-award-winning author, keynote speaker, and professor of law and creative writing. She is the author of the bestselling Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education; the Foreword INDIE Gold winner The Freelance Academic: Transform Your Creative Life and Career; and the IPPY Gold winner Even If You're Broken: Essays on Sexual Assault and #MeToo. She's also the author of the Hollywood Lights series, which includes Entanglement and Take Your Charming Somewhere Else. As a professor, she is the author of many academic books on law and writing. She writes often about her subjects of expertise for national magazines, including Catapult, The Toast, Women in Higher Education, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Quartz, The Establishment, and many more. She speaks frequently about mental health and disability, writing and publishing, gender issues, and higher education. she lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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