I recall a few months after I was released from the psychiatric hospital; I received by mail an invitation to an interview conducted by a psychologist from the organization that is responsible to authorize people for driving vehicles. That experience was very humiliating for me. Here are five reasons why people with schizophrenia or people that had psychosis disorder, should be allowed to (more…)
One of the most common methods to recover from a major crisis in life is the self help. Self help is when you use techniques and methods to overcome you illness, by doing actions and interventions in your own way of life, being guided by a professional in the mental health field or by a care giver. Here are five methods that any one can use in order to get better with his or her schizophrenia: (more…)
The holiday’s season is coming, and people should know that schizophrenia sufferers need special attention. Not because they are too weak due to they’re illness, but because they have delicate soul and went through a lot in they’re lives. Here are five tips in order to pass the holiday’s season in a successful matter: (more…)
One of the most irritating phenomenon that accompanist when you have schizophrenia is Stigma. Stigma appears side by side with your mental illness, and no matter how hard you try to convince everybody that things that people say are not true. It won’t matter. Unless, you would take action and show to the world that you are not less than others. Here are 5 ways for you to accomplish in order to “Show the world”. (more…)
Many times after a huge crisis such as psychosis disorder, people go through a process of collecting they’re soul pieces. The new feeling of being with such a horrible secret and a terrible experience behind them, frequently cause them to feel not belonging to they’re surroundings.
For example, when a sufferer sits behind a table in a coffee shop, he usually feels like not being a part of its surroundings. If he sits alone, then his feeling is being intensified. He sees people who read the paper, talking (more…)
I keep receiving many e-mails and phone calls; from consumers whom are asking me whether it is a good idea to stop taking your drugs since those people feel well and ok now. My answer to them is – Don’t dare to do so! It can become your worst nightmare in the recent years.
Here are 5 dangers of stopping taking your psychiatric drugs: (more…)
During the recent years since I had my first psychosis, I discovered that psychiatrist doctors in the mental health field, keeps a silent agreement between them – not to tell and share they’re expensive information about the sufferer’s state, and so long that you don’t hire them to be your privet doctor, they will keep away from you a vital information concerning yours or your loved one’s state.
Here are 5 facts that psychiatrist will probably keep away from you, letting you find out them by yourself in the hard way: (more…)
One of the best ways to fight against stigma is by exposure. Exposure is when someone who suffers from schizophrenia disorder begins to accept the fact that he has difficulties and he needs to take care of himself.
Taking care of him when having schizophrenia, is not a common routine among people who suffer from schizophrenia. Most of the (more…)
The controversy between people, who support only the opinion of giving the one and only drug treatment, to people who thinks that this treatment should be combined with an alternative treatment, or as the only treatment, never had been more charged than nowadays.
More and more people understand that giving drugs in order to cure a disease, or giving relief to its symptoms, can’t be the only treatment given. More and more find more common the opinion that drugs alone can’t do the whole healing work. There has to be (more…)
When having Schizophrenia, people tend to develop different kind of side affects, addictions and accompanied illnesses such as – gaining weight, high level of cholesterol and bad lipids, high blood pressure, lack of physical activity, dental caries and so on.
The main reason for all of the above, tend to be mainly lack of motivation and a total despair. (more…)