This week Brenna sits down with Jaime Chaifetz. Jaime has schizoaffective disorder and struggled for years trying to find a way to help manage her symptoms. Oddly enough, the only cure that silenced the voices in her head and helped with her mania was... Lyme Disease medication. Jaime shares her story, as well as the most helpful coping skill she utilized; laughter. Jaime has a web series titled ‘Effectively Schizo’ which is a mental health comedy series covering what it’s like to live with schizoaffective disorder. Although society is becoming more accepting of discussing mental health disorders like Anxiety & Depression, there’s still a large stigma on other disorders like Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, and many more.

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