Michael Vargas Arango, 22, is a second-year pupil at Miami Dade Faculty, finding out enterprise and psychology.
Eva Marie Uzcategui for NPR
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Eva Marie Uzcategui for NPR
Michael Vargas Arango, 22, is a second-year pupil at Miami Dade Faculty, finding out enterprise and psychology.
Eva Marie Uzcategui for NPR
Michael Vargas Arango was having a reasonably typical day — hanging out at his residence in Medellín, enjoying Xbox with one in all his buddies. Solely, when he spoke to his mother throughout the day, he realized that she had no thought what “friend” he was speaking about — she hadn’t seen or heard anybody moreover her son in the home all day. That was the primary inkling both of them had that Michael was coping with one thing uncommon. It was the start of the lengthy highway towards Michael being recognized with schizoaffective dysfunction. On this episode, we’re speaking to Michael about how he experiences the world, and the way he is serving to to coach folks about what it actually means to stay with a uncommon, stigmatized, and extensively misunderstood psychological well being situation.
Vargas was the faculty winner of this 12 months’s Pupil Podcast Problem. You possibly can learn extra about him right here.
