tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post2635822465139721504..comments2023-07-13T05:01:01.343-07:00Comments on Holistic Recovery from Schizophrenia: NAMI perpetuates schizophreniaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700295858497275586noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post-618256323824393332009-10-20T03:45:17.446-07:002009-10-20T03:45:17.446-07:00The pendulum always swings too far one way or the ...The pendulum always swings too far one way or the other. In the rush not to blame the parents, particularly the mother, we have lost sight of what mental illness is really about, which is human suffering. I encourage mothers and fathers to have the courage to look at the situation with their child to try to learn what precipitated the problem. Parents do the best they can, but some children are more sensitive than others. Self-examination is actually very liberating, once you get over feeling threatened. The problem is that there are many psychiatrists now, not just then, who use very harsh language about the parents. Maybe they don't intend it, but that's how it is taken. There are some psychiatrists who I refuse to read because of the way they come across, which is a pity, because they have a useful message. However, if they want buy-in from the relatives, they should figure out that they can't use heavy handed language. This applies to any situation in life.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06700295858497275586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post-32165301669379868422009-10-20T02:33:28.753-07:002009-10-20T02:33:28.753-07:00As far as I know, NAMI was founded by two mothers ...As far as I know, NAMI was founded by two mothers of "mentally ill" persons, who were sick and tired of being "blamed" (=held responsible) by the professionals: "Don't blame us for the emotional suffering of our kids, thanks!" - They still did that to a certain extent back in the 1970ies when NAMI was founded by the said two mothers. Holding parents responsible. NAMI was (and still is) the relatives' answer to Laing and Bateson. <br /><br />The really intriguing thing about it is that NAMI-relatives chose (and still choose, of course) to misinterpret Laing and Bateson (and others). Laing and Bateson didn't aim at destroying parents. Quite the opposite. They wanted parents to face and let go of the lies (the trauma) that were (are) making life hell, not only, and obviously, for their "mentally ill" kids, but not least also for themselves. But the more you're identified with these lies, with your own trauma, the more such a request of course equals to a personal attack. Especially when the lie someone perceives as being who they are makes their kid react as destructively as "schizophrenia" it becomes a matter of survival to deny that this "schizophrenia" may merely reflect the destructiveness of the lie. <br /><br />What NAMI-relatives fear the most is not <a href="http://www.psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/reprint/49/6/764.pdf" rel="nofollow">"the horror of mental illness"</a>. It is the horror of the lie they perceive is them. It is their own reflection in the mirror of "mental illness", which their kids hold up before them.<br /><br />It's sad, because nothing is in fact more liberating than a thorough look in the mirror, and the realization that the lie doesn't need to be who you are.Marianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16273435151682585281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post-12277355766967842272009-10-19T08:27:41.573-07:002009-10-19T08:27:41.573-07:00Agreed. It was very hard for me at first to fight ...Agreed. It was very hard for me at first to fight off the prevailing belief system that the doctors and institutions imposed. It ground out all hope, except, somehow I found it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06700295858497275586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post-76617233757511617672009-10-19T07:11:58.444-07:002009-10-19T07:11:58.444-07:00From the moment of diagnosis onward a context is c...From the moment of diagnosis onward a context is created for the patient and the family. Well meaning, but misguided, "professionals" aim to confine the patient and the family to a context that is defined by chronic illness, the ongoing need for pharmaceutical intervention, and the consequence is chronic hopelessness and despair.<br /><br />There is no medical evidence that supports the etiological theories in respect of the origin(s) of schizophrenia and no diagnostic testing to support any of these theories.<br /><br />What appears clear is that psychiatric drugs cause secondary disease pathologies that can be diagnosed. In addition to the considerable psychological side effects they cause (such as suicidal ideologue) they contribute to physical disease pathologies such as diabetes, tardive diskenesia, etc.<br /><br />Once a context is formulated for the patient and his or her family it is a difficult, and at times an insurmountable task, to overcome the beliefs inspired within that context. Like so many other limiting beliefs espoused by human beings these beliefs are mere myths. The classification of schizophrenia itself is entirely a myth. Delusional and hallucinatory experiences fraught with paranoia are real human experiences, a process that has meaning for the individual, however even that is borne out of an ongoing myth that the individual has chosen to believe in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com