Rachel Star Withers
Rachel Star Withers is the host of the Inside Schizophrenia podcast, and a mental health advocate who lives with schizophrenia. She creates comedic and mental health videos and has appeared in numerous TV shows.
Rachel Star Withers is an entertainer, international speaker, video producer, and schizophrenic.
She has appeared on MTV’s Ridiculousness, TruTV, NBC’s America’s Got Talent, Marvel's Black Panther, TUBI’s #shockfight, Goliath: Playing with Reality,
and is the host of HealthLine / Psychcentral podcast “Inside Schizophrenia”. She grew up seeing monsters, hearing people in the walls, and having intense urges to hurt herself.
Rachel creates videos documenting her schizophrenia, ways to manage, and letting others like her know t
hey are not alone and can still live an amazing life.
She has created a kid’s mental health comic line,
The Adventures of ____. Fun Fact: She has wrestled alligators.
Rachel Star Withers
by Schizophrenia
Current age: 40
Age at diagnosis: 20
Location: South Carolina
Kody Green is an American author, motivational speaker, and mental health advocate known for his unflinching honesty, resilience, and commitment to breaking stigma surrounding serious mental illness. Living with a diagnosis of undifferentiated schizophrenia, Kody uses his personal journey—from undiagnosed psychosis, addiction, and incarceration to recovery and empowerment—to educate, inspire, and foster understanding across diverse audiences.
As a content creator, Kody has built a substantial platform on social media, including over a million followers on TikTok under the handle Schizophrenic Hippie, where he shares insights into life with schizophrenia, mental health awareness, and overcoming adversity.
To deepen his impact as an advocate and speaker, Kody has completed training as a peer support specialist, recovery coach, and suicide prevention specialist, and he speaks regularly at conferences, colleges, and community events on topics such as schizophrenia awareness, addiction recovery, mental health in the workplace, and second-chance opportunities.
Kody Green
Michelle Hammer is a New York-based artist, speaker, and the founder of Schizophrenic.NYC. Living with schizophrenia, she works to flip systemic stigma on
its head by turning her lived experiences into fearless designs and provocative conversation starters. Through her art and storytelling, Michelle aims
to make mental health unapologetically visible, relatable, and impossible to ignore.
Michelle Hammer
Current age: 37
Age at diagnosis: 22
Location: Queens, NY
Michelle Hammer
Current age: 31
Age at diagnosis: 21
Location: Wisconsin
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