Study provides hope that schizophrenia isn't as deep-rooted in affected individuals as previously believed

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“Often times, individuals think there is something fundamentally wrong with them that can’t be changed,” Grant said. “This paper provides hope that the problem isn’t as entrenched or as stable as it might seem, or that it’s a devastating and unremittable disorder.”

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“Some of what produces the disability is related to how individuals think about the disability. And that thinking is quite changeable,”

QFT. Been there. And we see a lot of that here on this forum.

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QFT? What does that mean? I didn’t understand your whole answer.

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Quoted for truth. It means you quoted something because it’s true and you just wanted to point that out.

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Important stuff.
Thanks @everhopeful

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Thanks for the hopeful message!

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Really can be applied to just about anyone. Thinking negatively can become a cycle that is hard to escape.

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CBT helped me to change my perspective. It didn’t take any aspect of sz away from me but improved my functioning by changing how I perceived myself and my relationship to my hallucinations and delusions.

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Easily said but Isn’t 90% of our problem lack of confidence in just about everything? Saying we need confidence is easy.

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I didn’t read the article except the first paragraph but it’s like, “Yes, having confidence in myself. Yeah, now why didn’t I think of that?”

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I think it’s the other way around. Overconfidence; that is, not thinking twice about your perception, might be a bigger issue.

“For example, lower self-reflectiveness and greater overconfidence in judgments (low cognitive insight) are more likely to result in poorer neurocognition in the future. Similarly, improvement in self-reflectiveness and overconfidence predict improved neurocognitive performance in the future. These results suggest that improving cognitive insight may directly improve performances on laboratory and real-world tasks, the authors suggest.”

Sounds to me like challenging your way of thinking could be helpful.

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Really useful tool kit - even if my son doesn’t use it, because he doesn’t think he’s sick, I can utilize it.
So encouraging. Thanks for posting.