Michael Vargas Arango, 22, is a second-year pupil at Miami Dade Faculty, learning 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, learning enterprise and psychology.
Eva Marie Uzcategui for NPR
Michael Vargas Arango was having a reasonably typical day — hanging out at his house in Medellín, taking part in Xbox with certainly one of his associates. Solely, when he spoke to his mother throughout the day, he realized that she had no thought what “good friend” he was speaking about — she hadn’t seen or heard anybody apart from 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 street towards Michael being identified 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 teach individuals about what it actually means to reside with a uncommon, stigmatized, and extensively misunderstood psychological well being situation.
Vargas was the faculty winner of this 12 months’s Scholar Podcast Problem. You possibly can learn extra about him right here.