By Alexandra Howson, PhD Reviewed by Michael Cutler, DO, PhD
After a schizophrenia diagnosis, James Hickman felt like an outsider. But volunteer work helped him find his life’s passion again.
As author and therapist James Hickman knows only too well, schizophrenia is a serious mental illness that can make even the smallest tasks seem impossible. It can also make people feel that they have lost what makes them unique.
Hickman was diagnosed with schizophrenia at college and remembers his first episode of psychosis well. He says, “I remember talking to a young woman after a lecture and feeling as though I could hear her thoughts before she even said anything. I was very sensitive to other sounds over the next week or so, like laughter, and I became very fearful.”
After a week or so of hearing sounds and voices that weren’t really present (known as auditory hallucinations), Hickman was diagnosed with schizophrenia and treated in the hospital. He remembers feeling extremely depressed when he left the hospital. Depression is one of the biggest issues that people with schizophrenia face, especially in the first year after diagnosis. Many people also find it hard to concentrate and some feel suicidal.
Hickman says he also refused to believe he had a mental illness. Scott Hamilton, MD, a psychiatrist who works with OSF Medical Group in Peoria, IL., says denial is common. When people are first diagnosed with schizophrenia many refuse to view themselves as sick. This refusal can get in the way of recovery.
The important question;
why the person in the early-first stage episode of sz refuses to believe he has mental illness?
=the realistic answer about this question is that;
the person does not feels any known symptoms of disease,just he hears a voices of otherness,and inter a bilateral discussion unwillingly with these otherness,
there is no person in the world understand /realizes /describes and define a hearing voices process/ makes discussions with otherness AS a symptoms of disease/illness or else
while the author said "many people are first diagnosis with sz many refuse to view themselves as sick }
-this is wrong explanation ,because he talking about hearing sound for week,without
explain to us about the symptoms of illness which make him feel SICK !!
-Anyway,hearing the voices of otherness and make bilateral discussion , is a new phenomenon for the person and all non-schizophrenics individuals,he does not knows any thing about
-who is deny this actual event,he should know that;
he does not know all human phenomena which occur in nature
second
the author said;after a week or so of hearing sounds and voices that weren’t
really PRESENT {known as auditory hallucinations}
= this is a fabricated story,it is not true at all
1- the voices does not disappear after week
2- disappearing of the voices is means disappearing of schizophrenia case 100%
3- the heard voices is main active cause of the schizophrenia case,which causing
the disorder in the chemical background of brain and many disorders in the thought
and all aspects of behaviors
=the heard voice is the maker of sz case and all symptoms
=in the absent of the voices,there is no any symptoms of sz in the thought or behaviors
or in the chemical background of brain
=the main suffering from the schizophrenia is just the hearing voices,seeing imaginary people[non-human] and the inner bilateral discussion unwillingly, no matter what is the bad effects degree of any other symptom !!
if the voices are disappear in any time of life,the person feels full cure from the schizophrenia,and all types of symptoms must be disappear too !!
the question
how can he was diagnosis with schizophrenia after the disappearing of the voices ?