I think it is important to be calm before attempting changes that ‘should’ further you toward a better life or recovery. Combining self-compassion with acceptance of the circumstances can uplift people through events of adversity.
Self-compassion can help people calm down, and it is important to cancel a destructive social-narrative feedback loop, which other people may be placing you into. If your choices are continued self-destruction OR acceptance and self-compassion, then certainly the latter is preferable, but it also requires some self-awareness of yourself and past-reflection, which is not easy with a disease like Schizophrenia or within this world of (purposeful) information convolution.
Yet I think self-compassion is one small band-aid to a tiny crack in the leaking dam. Being calm and reflective does not necessarily make dealing with other people easier who do not share your own views of compassion (towards yourself.)
While one pair of people somewhere on the planet are making love to each other right now, another pair are facing each other in deadly combat, (in that very same moment, some of us find self-pity for our situation instead of compassion.) Having self-compassion does not change a situation you may find yourself in, but it can help you get to the point where you can accept taking appropriate action.
Perhaps, taking use of this ‘time of calming’ to remove things which create a negative reaction or feedback loop (stressors), or any chemical disbalancements (lack of exercise, drugs, fake-food diet, sleep troubles, etc…), and then fix those problems is the next step to recovery, and prevent a relapse into preventable patterns.
On top of that, you need to learn to be a objective and fair judge, so the impulsive, destructive, coercive actions of other people does not affect your life, and you can administer fair recourse to prevent harms which might be done. That requires wisdom, self-control and maturity, none of which come easily in a ignorant and chaotic environment, but can be found by self-reflection and personal scrutiny.
I guess what I am getting at, is that a lot of us find ourselves in loops, so don’t let the tiny band-aid become another collapsed dam. Rebuild and break out of those loops, find information which helps and discard things which enable the loops.
you have a good day too