tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post8750785260322508733..comments2023-07-13T05:01:01.343-07:00Comments on Holistic Recovery from Schizophrenia: Instructions for reading my book at authonomyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700295858497275586noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post-61605789688947974782010-11-01T00:40:57.563-07:002010-11-01T00:40:57.563-07:00Birmingham - Thanks for your thoughtful comments. ...Birmingham - Thanks for your thoughtful comments. The book is essentially finished, but the editor I sent it to had some comments that meant more work on my part. I am reluctant to post the next chapters until I fix the problems. And, yes, I was exhausted while I was intensely worried. (I'm no longer tired!) My husband and I decided early on that we needed the extra income because we had two other sons to support and we shouldn't let whatever was happening with Chris impact us financially. Chris is an intelligent person, but he never really tried in school. He got through the early grades with no effort on his part (but no academic rewards, either) and then he picked up the pace quite a lot when we moved to Europe. He had high test scores, but no sense of direction. He was told by a testing firm that because of his math skills and verbal skills he had his choice of anything he wanted to do. Choice bothers Chris. He was disappointed by that answer because he hadn't a clue himself. He had about two years where he was beginning to really do well in school, but as this time drew to a close he was beginning to go psychotic. From all my reading and all of the people I've met here and elsewhere, quick recovery is the exception rather than the rule. I feel recovery could be a lot quicker if psychiatry were honest about this condition, rather than disingenously claiming it's a brain disease with no known cause and no remedies.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06700295858497275586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post-14507876787987649142010-10-31T19:32:39.324-07:002010-10-31T19:32:39.324-07:00One, when’s it going to be finished?! I enjoyed re...One, when’s it going to be finished?! I enjoyed reading it very much, and I’d like to thank you for taking the time to share this with those of us who are interested. And also thank Chris for allowing his story to be told and shared so completely and intimately. I’m sure it helps others, whether or not they are in distress. It helped me just thinking back upon my own adolescence and young adulthood. The many therapies you have tried are intriguing and I’m glad I’ve read about them. I’m particularly interested in the Family Constellation Therapy. <br /><br />I was surprised at the number of therapies you have tried. You must be exhausted. There are so many things I like. I like that you focused on the community and the family, and stressed that it’s not just a disease of one person alone. <br /><br />At the same time, it’s been a long time with Chris. One keeps waiting and hoping for that happily ever after ending. That we have not gotten it completely yet, makes me think of other things, other possibilities for this story you have told. And what I mean is that – oh darn. I’m sorry, I lost my train of thought here. I stopped and rushed on to a paragraph below before I forgot it.<br /><br />There’s no way I can encapsulate all that I felt and thought reading this with this one comment, but aside from some small typos, one thing that did stick out to me is that Chris is obviously a smart person, and I found myself wanting to know more about when he learned, how he learned. Was it easy for him? Can we hear a bit more about his learning style and his intelligence? You did not focus very much upon that, but perhaps if you come from a very intelligent family and your present family is intelligent, you might take it for granted. <br /><br />I can see your interest pique with each new therapy and then you come to some level ground where you just say damnit Chris, you gotta participate here, too! I know exactly how that feels. In short, one sees and feels the cycles you go through. I can’t believe you worked outside the home during all this time. Lord when did you find the time? <br /><br />Anyway, as scattered as these thoughts are, I wanted to get them down fresh, just after I finished. I’d love to read more, it was well-written and readable. A page turner, if I may. I won’t try to put on an editor’s hat, I’m sure you have plenty of good advice in that regard. Just consider me a ready reader for when the next installments are ready.<br /><br />-BirminghamAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post-27093588127127899882010-10-28T17:41:11.340-07:002010-10-28T17:41:11.340-07:00Hi Rossa,
Ihave just enjoyed the first dozen chap...Hi Rossa,<br /><br />Ihave just enjoyed the first dozen chapters of your book and I love it.You mention energy healing in your introduction and this opens the door to my sharing my experience of this gift. The mode I have learned and practice on others as well as on myself is called Attunement and is very usefull. My first time of feeling all right in myself in years came after an attunement was shared withb me by a spiritual mentor. I eventually learned how to practice this energy healing art for myself and I now share it with others. The goal of attunement is to learn to stay in the energised attuned state all the time and this is now my consistant living experience.A big issue for me for many years was massive amounts of fear and terror which was crippling, a result of a serious accident in my early teens which left me severly traumatised and afraid of many things. It was because of this traumatization that I first went to see a pychiatrist and began `my many years as a mental patient.Now my daily life is lived fearlessly and with much delight and joy as I move about in my world with the proven ability to befriend many people on a level that is worthwhile to all of us as my vivid exemplification of the aduacetly realized life potential which is my experience is visable to all in my world. I do realize that many people who see my rather flamboyant display of my own uniqueness are prone to misjudging me and do get a rather predudiced and incomplete picture of what is really going on for me. It seems that most people have to be quite desperate to accept the plain truth of which my expression of myself gives evidence.Nontheless those dear ones who are coming close and seeking my assistance give me the greatest fulfillement that I have known as I naturelly and easily find ways of helping them to begin to beleive that they too can become whole from an inner fountain of goodness and wellbeing which is always present for me. I know that for a person reading my words here it is perhaps a bridge too far for you to be convinced of the truth of my claims for myself in these postings and yet something in me is deeply pleased to be able to make these notes here.<br /><br />Gladly I am available to anyone who is interested to connect with me on skype sound and vision. Dare to try me if you will to be true to the things I have been saying here. "<br /><br />For this cause came I to this hour"<br /><br />My skype name is NGAUGHAN 5334 OR NOEL <br />GAUGHAN 1<br /><br />I welcome the honest scepticAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com