Rebecca Chamaa is a writer and lives in Southern California. She graduated with a liberal arts degree from Evergreen State College in 1989. Originally from Washington state, she attended an American high school in Cairo, Egypt. After experiencing periods of instability in her life, she was officially diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 2006. She writes about her experience living with schizophrenia at her blog, ajourneywithyou.com.