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This woman was mentioned by my therapist just a couple of days ago. Strange to me how it pops up here!
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What she explains about the things she experienced, techniques she used to deal with it and what the final result is, is almost exactly something that I also personally experienced. I posted it here after hearing about it in another TED talk on shamanism. It feels good to know that the techniques I used to overcome my psychosis were successfully used by another.
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Im currently on a 6 week CBT course - on how to cope with distressing voices. Just had my first session last week. With an app i installed they can record my moods and coping online, which they get sent. He mentioned her and told me to watch her TED Talks. Nice to see it here.
@Naarai I remember trying to convince my doc to start with some CBT. He wasnt interested and only gave meds. Through personal exploration, I’ve found that talking with others and my voices was one of the most rewarding paths to improvement.
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Who is she? 666/999
Last time i had CBT was at a now closed place called the Henderson Hospital in Sutton, Surrey 1999. Couple of years back - and i would have had no insight, but i feel lucky they chose me for the course. I myself have been just on meds - with no CBT till now. You in UK? Cos i would ask your social worker if they can sort something out - tho you probably will have a long wait.
I live in India. The ratio of psychologists per 100,000 people here is 0.3. In the US, its more than 12. I sort of learned and practiced CBT by talking with my voice. Weird but it worked! 
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She sounds like she’s another good prognosis case, like Elyn Saks, with minimal negative symptoms.
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@firemonkey She didnt start like that though. She learned to change her negative symptoms.
She’s a schizophrenic who overcame the negative part of her sz. What is 666/999?
I would say her negative symptoms were far less prominent than her positive ones . She’s very much the poster child of the acceptable face of psychosis/schizophrenia.
I dont think she mentions any positive symptoms. Its all fear based. Also, once we learn to live with our voices, the experience of sz can become very different that what it originally was.
I wouldn’t put fear in the negative symptom category.
Then what would you consider negative?
Things like lack of initiative,lack of motivation,emotional flatness, social withdrawal, poverty of speech.
Those are also based on fear but on a more subtle level. Fear that there is nothing out there for us, that we now live in a prison, that we cant have any more friends, that no one wants to talk to us etc,
I face all those fears and they weaken…eventually. Watch the horror movie instead of closing your eyes and screaming. When you see it again next time, it wont be quite as horrible
In fairness, I’ve never had to worry about money while having sz or psychosis. If I had to, that would have drained me superfast. My family pays for all my costs and I am thankful for that. I’ve never had a job for long either. Do you work while living with your sz?
I’ve never worked. Years ago (1979) it was proposed I go to an industrial rehabilitation centre, but my pdoc said I wasn’t well enough. The suggestion was never repeated.
I think you’re different than many people here in that your parents pay for all your costs. When I left school and was living at home my father had me pay half of my social security benefit for my upkeep . £7.00 a week in 1975. That would be the equivalent of £41 today. https://www.moneysorter.co.uk/calculator_inflation2.html#calculator
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Costs specific to me are basically all my meds and hospital fees. The rest is pretty much shared by everybody. I dont pay for it ofcourse but they would be paid whether I was there or not. What did you spend the rest of your SS on?