3. My TV Family and The Human they Taught me to Become

An essay on loneliness, my TV Family and making my first friends as an adult

When I look back on my twenties and all the the adventures my mind and body went on, it’s easy to focus on the symptoms — the psychosis, suicide attempt, fugue states, and 21 psychiatric hospitalizations. But more often than not, as I organize the many pages of personal health records and journal entries these days, I don’t think much of the symptoms. T…