tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post3588617737106322273..comments2023-07-13T05:01:01.343-07:00Comments on Holistic Recovery from Schizophrenia: How not to be a patientAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700295858497275586noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post-19164468914175012182009-10-05T23:53:52.485-07:002009-10-05T23:53:52.485-07:00Thanks for the interesting comments and the link t...Thanks for the interesting comments and the link to Eckhart Tolle. I've just got to listen to "Let me be special in my misery." I, too, joined my group, genuinely looking for help, but then I realized that many of the people in it were not wanting to help themselves.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06700295858497275586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post-47466815858660817552009-10-05T17:03:59.382-07:002009-10-05T17:03:59.382-07:00I used to frequent a forum like the one you descr...I used to frequent a forum like the one you describe in this post for a few months, back in 2005, I think it was. I left because I found the belief held by most members that so-called "schizophrenia" was a lifelong, incurable brain disease rather depressing, and very little healing, and because I didn't feel welcome by the forum's admins and a few members, who actually were openly dismissive of and ridiculing any attempt to question the bio-model. - And I was far from as sharp a critic as I am today! - It was with bewilderment that I noticed both this, well, hostility towards what I regarded a rather positive message (recovery is possible), and also that quite a few members at the forum were using their drugs' names and the exact dosage they were on as their signature: John Smith, <i>Abilify, 15 mg</i>". Like you would expect someone to use their professional title, "Ron Unger, <i>LCSW</i>". Why would someone want to do that?<br /><br />In <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/storiesweliveby/2008/05/12/An-Interview-with-Grace-Jackson-MD-Part-2" rel="nofollow">an interview</a> with Larry Simon, Grace Jackson mentiones the reasons why people become "professionals", i.e. chronically "mentally ill": the social component is that for some people the identification with a label means that they are eligible for social/financial support, while they wouldn't be without the label. The biological is that the drugs themselves create chronicity. And the psychological component is that being a "schizophrenic" always is better than not knowing who or what you are. The label provides an identity. Or, as Grace Jackson says, it provides Meaning (capital M) to your life, and makes you feel important. While most people who experience crisis lack exactly this: meaning in their lives, a genuine identity. If you take the label from these people, all they've got left is basically nothing. So, they cling to their label, and defend it, as if it were a matter of life and death. And it is, symbolically speaking. Disregarded the fact that the label, too, is a (very) false ego-identification, to use a Buddhist term.<br /><br />Eckhart Tolle sums it up in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AugWiDv17Yg" rel="nofollow">this YT-clip</a>: "Let me be special in my misery."Marianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16273435151682585281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post-66581749314565564072009-10-05T06:19:53.065-07:002009-10-05T06:19:53.065-07:00Rossa,
Your blogs are fantastic in their clarity a...Rossa,<br />Your blogs are fantastic in their clarity and honest description of an experience that could potentially be deemed an immovable obstacle for many parents and caregivers. You determination to seek truth and share that discovery with others is refreshing, and very much needed by many who may (or may not) be willing to accept it.<br />T.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com