1) Better education
It is well proven that people with schizophrenia give their children a better education in average, than people with out it. They get better manners, they are more sensible for their environments and they become better citizens to their country.

2) More sensitive
Children to parents with schizophrenia, become more sensitive to their environment and to their surrounding people. They tend to be more mature compare to other normal kids. The reason is that they sometimes have difficult times with their suffering parents, and therefore they understand that life can be difficult sometimes.

3) Ready for life
Children to parents with schizophrenia, become more ready to life than other normal children. As they went through one or two crisis in life, they become more resistant to life difficulties than other children. They are more mature than other in a way that helps them better deal with life challenges than others.

4) Less violent
It has been proven that children to schizophrenia suffering parents become to be less violent grownups than other children. They are being raised in a calmer environment with less violence, what makes them in the long run better people with no violent tendencies.

5) Healthier
As a contradiction to the stigmatized point of view of other people, children of schizophrenia suffering parents, less tend to develop illnesses. But even if their chances to develop mental illnesses are higher, because of the other reasons that were mentioned before, we can predict that they would deal with their illness even better than their parents and therefore recover in a better and a healthier matter than other sufferers.

Don’t let other people tell you what to do in the matter of having children or not. We prefer that people with schizophrenia would fulfill their basic instinct and human right of having children than becoming resembling to the darkest regimes that were and are controlling in some regions of the world through the history of man kind.

1) Maintain a daily routine
If your loved one suffers from schizophrenia, it is going to be a difficult task to get him back to a daily routine. One that would make him occupied and not thinks about his illness all the time.

2) Being active
When suffering from schizophrenia, your loved one is situated in a place that is being affected by the negative symptoms of schizophrenia and therefore suffers from a lack of energy and motivation to do stuff. How to ignite him and make him face the reality in an active manner is your real challenge as his loved one.

3) Being independent
One of the most significant phases of having schizophrenia is lacking the ability to live by you. Therefore how to get him live his life in an independent way with his own protective environment, out of his parents’ house is the real challenge.

4) Having his own income
This is another way to give your loved one the ability to live in an independent way as he should be. When that sufferer has his own job and income and not being dependent on the government support. When having your own money with out giving others a report about what to spend and what not to, is the real meaning of being independent.

5) Having friends
When people suffer from schizophrenia, they are also suffering from relationships problems such as lack of friend or lack of his own mate. Therefore it is crucial to cause him to get new friends and even to find his own soul mate in order to be able to defeat his schizophrenia disorder.

If you have more challenges to cope with when your loved one suffers from schizophrenia, please share them with us…

1) Self care
People don’t like to hang out with others who don’t take care for them selves. People prefer hanging out with people who wash every day, clean their teeth and do basic hygienic activities as a way of life.

2) Manners
People prefer to hang out with others who are polite. They prefer people who do things in a polite manner and not with a vulgar attitude. Try to treat others in a polite manner rather than in a vulgar way. This way you would promise yourself a good, mannered name.

3) Control
You should try in all time, to control your angers. If someone gets you mad and make you angry, try to count to ten. Don’t let that person to take you out of control. By controlling your angers, you promise yourself to be known as a more relaxed person.

4) become Friendly
People prefer to hang out with more friendly people. Try to have a positive attitude toward other people. Try also to communicate rather than remain silent among other people.

5) Assertiveness
Try to be assertive. You should show to your surroundings that you are your own master of will. If you want something then you will act in a smart way to get it.

Be cleaver and you would work your way up in the society ladder.

1) Leave behind past quarrels
When you seat around the holiday feast table, try to leave behind past quarrels with your loved ones. Don’t bring to the table past experiences and try to be positive in order to avoid igniting them again.

2) Don’t argue around the table
If one of your loved ones asks a question and crosses a red line, don’t get in to quarrel with him. You can always avoid answering him with a wiser answer such as “We would talk about it tomorrow”, and naturally he would forget his nosy question by the next day.

3) Spend with your folks the minimum time needed
I know that the holidays are a good time to get together, but in order to avoid unneeded quarrels with your loved ones, try to spend with them the minimum time that is needed, the lesser the better. If you won’t do that, the nosy questions accompanied by an inevitable quarrel, would follow.

4)  Be assertive
The way you answer your relatives interrogation, is the way you would leave your expression on them. Try to answer they’re questions with assertive way, not argue and leave a good impression on them. Let them understand that the fact you are a schizophrenia sufferer, don’t give them a reason to offend your feelings. You are a grown and mature guy or a woman, and you should be treated respectively.

5) Keep your manners
Try to leave a good impression on your relatives; after all you are not going to see most of them until the next feast that would be carried out in the next holidays. Avoid tension and tenseness situations as much as you can.

Remember, the holidays would pass and life would go on, as well as the healing routine.

If You have some more tips, please share them with us…

Unfortunately, most of the sufferers I know are single. The reasons for that are not always similar, but the fact is that most of the consumers find themselves alone without someone to share they’re life with.

From my point of view, the most crucial aspect of getting well when having a mental disorder is to find your mate. A boy or a girl friend helps you confront with your mental illness problems. She supports you and plays a row of someone that shares your deepest feelings through your coping.

Getting a soul mate shouldn’t be too difficult. Today there are ways to get to know new mates by countless ways such as matching sites on the internet, consumers clubs and parties, through mutual friends and so on.

Finding your soul mate is a crucial duty if you want to get well with your illness. She has to be comfortable, sharing, the one person you can really trust and depend on with your most intimate thoughts. She has to be your friend, and you should support each other in difficult times as in normal times.

If you get to the conclusion that your relationships with your soul mate are not healthy for your mental health, may be you should get to the conclusion that they are not for you and you should go on and find someone else to fulfill this job. Above all, don’t get despair for not finding the one.

There is an ancient say – There is a cap for every pot. So don’t fall into despair and keep trying to find your soul mate.

So if this subject is so basic to our existence, why is it so difficult to get into relationships between a person who suffer from schizophrenia and another “Normal” person?

The answer is not so simple. One should continue to invest into his relationship in order to make them work. People with out basic motivation that are suffering from the schizophrenia negative symptoms, are not getting into relationships the same as other normal people.

Therefore, when getting involved with a person who suffer from schizophrenia, both sides should know that it is not going to be such an easy task. Both sides should know that they have to invest plenty of efforts in order to make it succeed.

It won’t be easy, but the advantages of this kind of relationship are far more affirmative than any other “Normal” relations.

I believe that the mutual fruits of this kind of relations can help both sides subdue any kind of life’s threats. With a minimum of efforts from both sides, the couple can benefit from they’re relations and make them work against all odds.

Every human being has to right to realize they’re basic privilege to establish a family and have kids.
Do you have some advice for relationships between a sufferer and a “Normal” person?

The relationship is headed for failure if: only one of the partners endures the entire burden; if the couple does not support and help one another; if there are many difficult disagreements between the couple; if, even prior to the psychotic disorder, the relationship was unsuccessful; and if the healthy partner is unwilling to invest and/or live with a person who up until now has been healthy and has suddenly been diagnosed with a mental disease.

The relationship will not work if the partner does not have the strength and energy to invest in this type of relationship or alternatively is not prepared to bring children into the world with a mentally ill partner. Often, unfortunately, relationships end as a result of psychotic disorders.

It is important not to fall apart, but rather to continue moving forward and to find a partner who will accept us as we are, providing us with support, equanimity, mutual help and most importantly – love.
Can you share with me yor personal experience in dealing with your schizophrenia in your relationship?,

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