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) Be assertive
Sufferers of schizophrenia disorder should act in an assertive way. They should claim things for themselves that otherwise will not be given to them due to their schizophrenia. They should stand up for their right to be treated as normal as possible.

2) Find a job
In order to be independent and earn your own money without being supported by the government, people who suffer from schizophrenia should find a job that both keep them occupied during most of the day and therefore not thinking only about their illness, and earn a decent living from it.

3) Find a mate
One of the most important polls in life is your partner to life, your boy or girl friend, or your sole mate. A partner in life helps very much to deal with the daily lives and support you in everything you do. He or she is also the person to talk and share with almost about anything.

4) Do exercise
Doing exercise has many benefits such as reducing the amount of the bad cholesterol in your blood, helping you sleep better and deeper, reduce body weight and blood pressure, remaining in fitness and so on.

5) Defining goals
One of the most important ways to release sufferers from their fixation is by determine goals in life and going to reach them. It also helps them to show themselves that they are capable of doing stuff and get things that others think they can’t.

1) A reverse discrimination
People that have schizophrenia should be treated as people with like any other disease such as diabetes, high blood pressure, or any other chronic disease. The fact that we go through hallucinations and seeing things, don’t have to consequent in our driving license deprivation with a sweeping way.

2) The right to be independent
People that goes through schizophrenia disorder, should be insist of keeping they’re independency. Driving license is the most significant sign for being independent; therefore no one holds the privilege to deprive that independency.

3) We are more careful
People with schizophrenia are better drivers. Years of speaking with other sufferers and my self have shown me that people who went through any kind of crisis in life and especially a mentally crisis, were to be better drivers. The reason for that is that we are in a kind of supervision by other care givers or institutes.

4) A personal example
People that went through a psychotic disorder feels necessity to give a personal example for what they do, therefore be better drivers. The reason for that is the scorn by the community. The widespread opinion is that sufferers are not too good for anything, what makes us prove exactly the opposite in all our deeds.

5) We are calm
As contrary to what is being a common opinion, people with schizophrenia tend to be calmer than others, therefore conduct our cars in a calm way. The reason for that is that most of the time we are in a remission and under some kind of treatment, that causes us to accept our angers in a more healthy and responsible way.

1) Get a job
One of the most significant ways to show everybody that you don’t need any assistance is by finding a job. A steady job would show everyone that you seeking for your independence and that you want to support yourself by getting your own salary.

2) Leave on your own
If you live with your parents, then it’s about time to get your own place. Try to do everything you can, in order to have your own place in the world. If you have a job, then it won’t be too difficult for you to sponsor your own place. You can rent a room or maybe only a protected tenancy at first.

3) Find your mate
So you have a steady job, you have got your own place, what is missing now is someone to hang out with, a soul mate. It is the exact time to take action and go find your soul mate, a girl friend, a partner, any one that would help you cope with your situation and would promises each other not to be alone any more. A loving couple can help each other cope successfully with any crisis.

4) Conduct a healthy way of life
This is the exact time to start to live in a healthy manner. If you smoke, it’s about time to join a group and quit smoking. Start to do some physical activity in order to reduce your weight and take control of your cholesterol. Walking in a fast pace, four times a week, 45 minutes each is a great way to begin.

5) Show interest in different things
It’s about time to have other activities than sleeping and lining in front of the TV. Maybe you can take a course or two in fields that are in your interest. Read a book, write a journal, make new friends and hang out with them.

These were only some of the activities that you can do for yourself in order to get your independence by right and to demolish the stigma about you, your life and your illness.

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.

People should not be afraid of what others might say about them, they should show themselves with no fear.

Exposing yourself begins from your closest circles of relations such as your closest family, brothers, sisters, parents etc. you should not be afraid to speak freely about your disease with others. You should start doing it from your closest circles and more and getting far away in your relations’ circles. Your less close family such as uncles, nephews etc. and then to your neighborhood, community, place of work and so on.

If more and more people will not be afraid to speak freely about they’re disturbance, more and more “Normal” people would understand that there is nothing to be afraid of from such people that can be they’re neighbor from next door, they’re colleague from work or they’re mail man from they’re town’s community. People would understand that mental illness is a common phenomena and can happened to any one with no difference of race, color, gender, religious etc.
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