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feel free to say whatever you want to. I’m curious. I would. I’m sick of this ■■■■■■■■.
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I voted yes, but I’d wonder how I’d change.
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I think “normality” might take some getting used to.
Normal people would have had a lifetime to get used to it. We’d probably need some rehabilitation, like someone learning to walk again.
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I’d worry about permanent side effects
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Exactly… When I was 17 doctors talked my parents into putting me through ECT.
I know that for some people it’s worked great… but for me… it was a nightmare…
One swoop… one push of a button and when I woke up… a life time a voices were gone.
The doctors were under the impression that “how could that NOT be better?”
A life time of what I knew of my brain now gone…
I flipped… I shut down… I couldn’t focus… I was freaked out worse… I cried a lot… I was sure the nurse took my brain because I couldn’t hear it anymore. Sometimes I would scream just because things were too quiet and I wasn’t ready or warned just how quiet it would all be.
I reached for any drug I could to bring the voices back.
I’d love it if I didn’t have this illness… but I prefer a slow gradual approach to changing my brain. That way I can keep up and cope.
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There was a documentary recently about someone who was told the voices weren’t normal and that they were all in his head, and he flipped out basically. He was going to fatally harm himself and was talked out of it by someone. It’s called ‘stranger on the bridge’ if you can find it. I wish psychiatrists were more aware of the effects that happen in these cases.
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According to my psychiatrist I am highly Neurotic, and I can also experience Psychosis - so I am far from “Normal”
I would take a cure from my severe mental illness - but the Neurosis would remain intact - so there is no instant cure for me - I am damaged goods it seems 
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i would be first in the queue…out of the way people !?!
take care 
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you are talking about giving me something that would take away all I’ve gone through to reach the mental state where im at and everything I’ve learned along the way .
Im saying this a crotchety old dude so
No, I mean a miracle cure for just no more schizophrenia. Think of it like this: we have had our share of hell and victories over hell. Going through hell instead of simply living there still earns you the status of “Been to Hell”. Now if you live in something similar but not quite hell…Pumpkin King (that’s me, I’m the scariest) or proud citizen of Halloween town. Elyn Saks is the major. Fred Frese is something dope too. Like chief of police or something. But I’m just the scariest one, the Pumpkin King. I swear this ■■■■ all happened on accident.
I, Jack! The Pumpkin King! Have grown so tired of the same old thing…
No more suffering for no sz people?
I understand
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Yes- no more pain and suffering for us. That’s what I meant. Just magically gone, not like it never happened.
Past erased… family trauma erased… suicide attempt erased??? Just hit the re-set?
YES in a heart beat.
I meant a cure for the present and future of symptomatology, not an erase button on the past. I would reject an erase button. My insight is my personal knowledge and my personal power. I tell no one in real life the details of my symptoms. They’re mine. My insight. My knowledge, my power. I’ve said a bit about having three distinct voices in my head on here and some similar things to someone conducting a study, but I really felt honored to be in the survey due to who was conducting it…even then, I was generic and vague. I said some descriptive adjectives. I said “negative running commentary” and “Truman show delusion”, hardly anything else.
Please, I have written 300 pages of stream of consciousness journal entries. My future book or whatever, my story, my schizophrenia.
And I could write a thousand more pages.
Hummmmm… no new gifts from the head circus… no more fear of relapse… no more meds… because they wouldn’t be needed…
I could dig that.
I’m not sure I would want to erase my past…
I’m who and were I am now because of what and where I was in the past. I like where I’m at… for now.
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If they found something that would make it where I didn’t have to take AP’s I’d take it in a heartbeat.
Yes I would and I wish the scars in my face would go away. These battle scars from all of the wretchedness I had to deal with. A much cleaner me. But still have the memories. I wish I had more clarity, less craziness and more presentness. I wish I didn’t have to take meds to feel somewhat normal. I wish I wasn’t worried about the stigma every where I went. I wish I wish I wish. I wish I could be happy for once and not depressed.
I not neurotic,I am a very negative person,I would take a cure for both MI and Negativity
As long as the cure didn’t take away my creativity…but all the other things like voices, depression, anxiety, paranoia, delusions, hallucinations…I wonder if a cure would be like a one time thing or something like a pill or shot you’d have to take every day for the rest of your life. Still to have a quiet head and decent mood would be worth that I think.
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