On losing your mind and finding it again | Sam Gerrits | TEDxArnhem

Journalist Sam Gerrits talks about losing your mind in the 21st century: "You see, when you lose your mind you don’t think you are getting less sane, you actually feel more sane. It’s like you’re making an important discovery." The path to complete recovery after psychosis is so difficult, that we should be treated as hero’s.

Sam Gerrits is a journalist and a geochemist. He writes for Dutch news media NRC Handelsblad, Nieuwe Revu magazine and The Post Online.

One of his writing goals, is to help ease the social stigma associated with mental health issues, by speaking openly about his own bipolar disorder. His motto is: "Once crazy is not always crazy, not since 1958 and the invention of Haldol.”

​In 2007 he made his literary debut with the acclaimed book 'Alleen: berichten uit the isoleercel,' ('Alone: reportings from solitary’) written with philosopher Wouter Kusters. The book was published by Lemniscaat and reissued for third time in 2015.
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