I have learned in the past years that the most effective way to challenge the stigma in the mental health is by – Exposing. The only effective way to show the world the real true nature of mental illness is by being exposed.
When I say – Exposing, I mean that people that caries mental illness or disturbance, no matter from what kind, should stand up right and speak in a free way about they’re illness. (more…)
In the past years since I started to act for other consumers, I received many phone calls asking whether it is Ok to hospitalize they’re loved one who suffer from psychosis. These people wanted my approval for doing that. But why is that?
The answer is that they go through a conflict. It is against humane nature to take your loved (more…)
It is not so easy to identify a person that under a psychotic disorder, so I made a list of five ways to identify a person in trouble of psychosis:
1) One of the more significant ways to identify a person under psychosis is – when that person talks in a disoriented matter. He talks in a confusing matter, jumps from one subject to another without any connection between them. It is often sounds like a bunch of rubbish and a kind of gibberish. (more…)
There are many kinds of schizophrenia. One of them is – Catatonia. Catatonia is the kind of schizophrenia when a person doesn’t react to his surroundings. Sometimes he seats or lye in one position and is not able or willing to move.
It is important to remember that if a person is Catatonic, you should continue to talk to him because he is able to hear and understand you. Although he is not moving, he still can hear or see you. (more…)
This two minutes video shows in a disturbing way of illustration, how does the world looks like through the eyes of someone who suffer from schizophrenia, including an illustration of some of the Psychotic Delusions
This shocking Video causes me to be very angry! Have no mistake, a thing like that can happen all over the world. I know that in more than 50% of the psychiatric hospitals, (more…)
Some of schizophrenia sufferers’ testimonies plus doctors’ explanations about the disease. As you can see, more and more schizophrenia sufferers do not (more…)
For many years, researchers tried to predict whether the son or a daughter of schizophrenia sufferers’ couple would inherit the schizophrenia disease. Statistic facts show that if the parents has schizophrenia, the chances that the child would inherit the disease in an active matter, are not so unequivocal. There are four major methods how a person won’t inherit the schizophrenia disease, and therefore it is not possible to predict, even though his parents are ill: (more…)
One of the questions that I am most frequently asked is what do you do with a person who refuses to take medication and/or alternatively takes medication but as soon as they feel well, they throw them straight into the bin, which eventually leads to a “revolving door” phenomenon – repeated hospitalization.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to force a person to take medication, excluding cases of forced hospitalization or through various (more…)
After a person suffers from a psychotic disorder, some kind of disability remains. The disability may appear as a direct result of the disorder itself or as a side effect of the medication. Every person reacts differently to a psychotic disorder, but the disability does not have to be permanent. The majority of disabilities following psychosis are a result of emotional injury. (more…)