Valencia-Garcia, LouiePoston, Zachary Charles2021-06-022021-06-022021-05Poston, Z. C. (2021). Qualia: A personal ethnography (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.https://hdl.handle.net/10877/13715Schizophrenia is a complex mental disorder which affects nearly 1% of the population. This thesis is an ethnography and memoir over the life of Zachary Poston, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia at nineteen years of age. This work uses a literary memoir, poetry, and art made both in and out of psychotic states. Though this memoir will not give answers or a conclusion, it will give a perspective into the unique life schizophrenia forces upon a person and the challenges and experiences that come with it.Text30 pages1 file (.pdf)enschizophreniaethnographymemoirliterary memoirpoetryartThesis