Do you ever think schizos should form together and be a movement

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Yeah we should get representation in the UN or something

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interesting! :hibiscus:

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I donā€™t think this would work as Iā€™ve noticed political incompatibilities between many of those with higher function and those with lower function.

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nuts: people pooled to make things work.

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NAMI is not on our side. Their movement is not for us. It is for family members of us and mainly about controlling us and medicating us.

Whatā€™s on our side sometimes are what they call ā€œpeersā€, but not always. But sometimes they can be helpful because they also have schizophrenia and they are more sympathetic.

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peers work for the ins companyā€™s

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Iā€™m only offended when they use it wrong.
Like ā€œomg Iā€™m so crazy hahaā€
or when they mistake psycopath for psychotic, or the other way around.

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You can be batshit crazy without having SZ. Once dated a lady who would take the few $$$ she had left and play BINGO in the hopes of winning enough grocery money to feed her family. Of course, she would probably have been in better shape without buying smokes and playing BINGO. (She also wasnā€™t the brightest - felt so badly for her kids.)

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It just seems like especially young women like calling themselves crazy. Itā€™s like in the earlier 00ā€™s when girls would say ā€œIā€™m so hyper I think I have adhd hahaā€

Itā€™s like thereā€™s a prestige in being crazy without actually having anything wrong with you.

If I see ā€œIā€™m kinda crazyā€ on someoneā€™s profile, I swipe left, to put it that way.

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There is prestige in being a victim these days as well.

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True. Donā€™t get me started on the idiocy of the MeToo movement and its consequences.

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I think in America there should be better socio-political representation of schizophrenics.

I canā€™t speak for other countries, because idk what itā€™s like having sz in another country.

As for the schizophrenics themselves forming a movement I think there would be a lot of in-fighting in it, unfortunately.

The psychiatrist, R.D. Laing tried these homes for schizophrenics that were run by szā€™s during the 60ā€™s (?) I think it was the 60ā€™s.

Anyways they were largely unsuccessful.

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Thereā€™s a girl who is starting a movement for schizophrenia acceptance and awareness, if anyone is interested. Her video made the rounds here a while back.

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I would support a movement that has goals of informing and reducing stigma.

I think the nature of our illness makes it hard to get everyone on the same page with things, people getting paranoid about intentions is sadly something that happens very often.

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