If your schizophrenia is broken, you can probably exchange it for a new one.
2 Likes
Yes, some SZ is awareness, psychic, spiritual, along those lines. In the past the shaman or priest or prophet would see the signs (now called symptoms) and take the person having them under their wing and train them how to work with the signs and benefit from them.
While there have always been some truly mad/insane people, the numbers were not like they are today because secular doctors refuse to see the alternatives and call everything an illness, everything they don’;t understand and with their materialist atheistic mind set they will not understand anything even remotely spiritual.
1 Like
I agree with you mairead blossom. Good post.
How about exchanging it for something more useful, like a Stretch Armstrong doll? Er, Action Figure. I meant Action Figure.
10-96
2 Likes
I suppose if it’s unopened you could. Though you might need to get the manager involved. Hopefully the manager doesn’t think you stole it. I used to work in retail and had to be cautious about people returning items without a reciept. Theft can be a real problem.
Lol, imagine going into a Walmart and asking the customer service associate “Can I exchange my schizophrenia for a Stretch Armstrong doll?”
What’s sad is if I was the associate, the first thing that would pop into my mind would be “They still make those?!”
1 Like
If you are ever, EVER passing through Central Alberta, Canada, PM me. I will drive out to meet you and shake your hand. Best laugh I’ve had this week. I tip my hat to you sir.
10-96
1 Like
Too many people are diagnosed with “schizophrenia”. They white wash us all with the label. They are too quick to diagnose us. Every individual has an individual case. Labelling us all under the one label is wrong because each one of us is unique and beautiful. Psychiatry is far too quick to diagnose us all into one category!!
2 Likes
I’ve come to the conclusion that prophets/shamans/seers would be lunatics in that sense, still stuck in old psychiatry’s perspective. Now that psychiatry is invented, more people will be pushed into the system until “freedom” starting with freedom of thought, is controlled and socially subdued. It’s not just for the unwashed skitzo, it’s for the entire population. Psychiatry is socialist and flawed. I don’t expect much progress from it. I don’t think those involved have proven to be genuinely interested in curing all these mentally ill people for decades. It’s not about recovery, as should be obvious that every schizophrenic experiencer is on pills for eternity with no alternative other than a placebo. If all this money from the drug companies hospitals doctors was actually going towards people with MENTAL ILLNESS, then maybe people would get better.
But America likes sickness. They want us all to be the same sick freak. In any case, is it the right of an unborn child not to have his or her genes ■■■■■■ with? What if they don’t want to be normal?
1 Like
Hello and Welcome to sz.com
Aaa I see Its been less than 24 hours and you visit here spouting anti psychiatry poison.
If you spend time reading the posts here you will see that some have had their lives saved by medication.
I started to think you were a troll. But I will give you the benefit of the doubt.
Just realize that people stopping medication without the help of a doctor can be very dangerous for people with sz and those they may come in contact with.
We are a supportive group but tempting people to stop medication can put blood on your hands.
Don’t be that person.
Its also possible to have one psychotic break, get hospitalized, then recover.
Some people resent the experience and become psychiatric survivors.
There are websites for that.
Schizophrenia takes a while to diagnose and many doctors now reserve that for those that have repeated breaks and respond to the medication used to treat it.
If you were misdiagnosed and think you don’t have this ‘illness’ Hurray for you.
I’m sure if you keep looking you will find a doctor that says you don’t have sz and then you can live happily ever after.
You may also be in remission and @Plumber has a great thread on that.
1 Like
It might be a gift but it comes packed in in pandora’s box
3 Likes
I have been coming here since 1997 and Sz.com was always a great support to me. I hoped I could speak as freely now on this forum as I did then. I believe in medicine, of course but I do not believe in the present form of Psychistry and the incarceration of millions of Schizophrenics in mental hospitals around the World. I speak for Freedom and not everyone being subjected to very strong medicines on a daily basis for all of their lives! Some of these Psychiatrists are continuing on the belief that what they are doing is right and I don’t believe the psychiatric system works! I take my medicine but I do not believe I have this choice because it is Society who says I need them and I don’t like that! I believe in Earth medicine not some of these other Poisons they are giving millions of us, on the whim that we are “schizo”. Maybe this all means that I am not schizophrenic and I have been mis-diagnosed because I don’t believe I am ill. Yet, they tell me I am sz all the Time!!
3 Likes
Why do we go Mad?
I think not one of us was born mad!
Society tells us we are so and we believe it.
Therefore we must change society.
Kindness
Love
Being good not bad
Being educated
I wasn’t born Evil anyway!
Evil is different to Mad.
If psychiatrists are trying to manage evil, that’s different.
But they’re not! That’s not their job.
That’s the job of the Justice System.
That’s a bit messed up too !!
1 Like
Once in this system, there is no way out!!
1 Like
Well if you believe you can function just fine without the help of the psychiatric system , nobody is going to stop you. It is a choice.
I’ve heard some horror stories about people going the shaman route… think about it , your already hallucinating and now you go see a shaman who wants you to take hallucinogenic plants. …
yeah great idea… don’t forget shamans profit too with their magic"
1 Like
It’s not a choice for me. I had a breakdown but the incarceration left me institutionalised after 10 weeks. It took me 10 years to recover from my incarceration.!
Ah ok well that’s a different story
Hello, Raids!
Jayster
Sure there is…but it can be difficult. It really all depends on 2 things working in harmony…you first of all and then the right clinic that is not going to go strictly by the DSM V and automatically push meds on patients for every little quirk of personality.
The majority of their philosophy is,
You’re anxious, here’s a pill to try
Depressed? here’s another type of pill
Hyper? here’s something to slow down (but it’s really speed)
Hyper child? have some Ritalin…(It will greatly increase their potential to turn to other drugs as replacement at the magic age of 12 - 13 when the doctors discontinue it)
Seeing things? here’s an antipsychotic.
Hearing things? here’s a combination of pills.
etc…etc.
Jesus was thought mad, as were other prophets, and even some native shamans who were really deep into seeing beyond were considered a little odd…but in ancient days the ability to perceive was much more accepted.
Atheistic socialist… there is a type of ‘socialism’ mentioned in the Bible and other religions that is spiritual in nature, not materialist secular.
Hi Jayster, my man !!
M.