Sarah An Myers

Sarah An Myers is a writer who earned her Master of Arts in psychology with a focus in behavioral neuroscience from the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her research focused on novel computational and therapeutic methods for treating and diagnosing mental disorders. Sarah has worked at the American Psychological Association (APA) and Washington University in St. Louis, and she has published in OC87 Recovery Diaries, Index On Censorship, Open Minds Quarterly, New York Daily News, Free Inquiry, and more for topics related to mental health and their intersection with human rights, freethinking, and the literary arts. From 2018 to 2022, she spoke for the St. Louis chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) to thousands of students, gala attendees, parents, and educators.

This blog combines her scientific training with her lived experience of schizoaffective disorder. As a person living with the condition herself, she found few public education efforts that went beyond the standard illness narrative, which historically focused on grim outlooks. Oftentimes, information about schizophrenia is spearheaded by experts limited by their lab-focused gaze, who often fail to give credit to patients to lead their own recovery. With this blog, she aims to promote proactive attitudes for patients living with schizophrenia disorders. She hopes that she can instill the idea that patients with psychosis can, in fact, collaborate with their practitioners to the broader public. This blog aims to bring leading scientific knowledge and personal insights from the author, scholarly experts, and cultural perspectives directly to the patients so patients have better ideas about what treatment options they have to combat the disorder.

Sarah is also a creative nonfiction writer. She got her MFA from The New School in creative nonfiction and is at work on a memoir about her recovery from schizoaffective disorder. Find her on X/Twitter at @sarahanmy.