1) Writing in forums
By writing in forums, you can receive a comment very fast. It is a very useful way to receive other people’s opinion without the need to expose your self too much. In order to receive the best answer from other experience sufferer or professional, you should provide the maximum information that is needed to understand your point.

2) Writing a blog
A blog is a web site that is easy to handle and to add content into. It doesn’t have to be a journal like most people thinks. You can write in it on any matter or subject you like. It is also a great tool to receive comments about what you write and a much recommended tool.

3) Writing articles
An article is a tool to express your self in a professional matter. People, who write articles, are considered to be experts in their field. Therefore you can write articles almost about any thing you like. The minus about it is that the articles are not built in order to receive comments from people, except may be of the ranking grades.

4) Writing a book
The best way to express what is happening to you in your life, your experiences, your desires, emotions, feelings, and so on is by writing a book. You can let your imagination fly away and create new worlds by your writing. Publishing a book is not so simple and requires lots of motivation, self discipline and addiction to it.

5) Writing songs
By writing a song, you can express your feelings or emotions in an artistic way. You can play with words in a way that only possible when you write songs. A song is a short way of expressing and can draw attention from other people. It also a nice way to say things that you wouldn’t say them with out it.

1) Laughter is good for health
It has been proven that people who laugh a lot, tend less to develop many kind of diseases and disorders. They live longer, less suffer from any kind of depression and conduct a healthier way of life.

2) Laughter is a way of coping
One of the most powerful ways of coping with crisis in life is by making a laugh out of it. The custom of laughing about difficulties in life makes the object illness look a lot less harmful than it is actually in reality and therefore gives it its real dimensions.

3) Miniaturizing the situation
If you want to show, first of all to your self and then to others, that something is given much more importance than it should – laugh about it! It would make your disorder seems like it is another test of life and it should remain as small and harmful as it really is.

4) Your delusions are funny
Yes they are funny! Laughter can give your delusions their own place in your life by showing to your self and to others that your psychosis’s delusions are not real and you should not give them importance as if they were real. The truth is that they were like a bad dream, may be a scary one but more than that.

5) An optimistic view of life
Again, in order to show to your self at first and only afterwards to others, that you see life through pink sunglasses. The ability to make a laugh out of serious situations in life, shows that you share an optimistic view of life and that you first searches the bright side of life or the half glass that is full, and do not share a depressed way of living therefore you’ve got what it takes in order to recover from your schizophrenia disorder.

1) Begin to take physical tests
This is exactly the time to take control on your life. In order to improve your life’s quality, it is very important to identify physical problems in order to take action and prevent any deterioration. Therefore it is important to measure your sugar level, blood pressure, cholesterol and many other physical measurements.

2) Begin to exercise
It has been proven that exercise prolong your life and help to prevent many physical illnesses side by side of improving your life quality in many other aspects. It takes only 45 minutes of daily walk, 5 times a week for a start in order to see results in no time. In the first times you can begin by circling your neighborhood and slowly raise your pace and distance.

3) Begin to diet
In order to lower your body weight and reduce your bad cholesterol level in your blood among other bad by products, it is very important to start on a diet, eating 5 nutritious and healthy mills a day, being under supervision of a professional nutritionist. Exercise side by side of a healthy diet is the best formula to fight overweight.

4) Begin to quit smoking
Smoking is the No.1 killer on the modern era. In order to quit smoking with out un necessary pain or stress and the best result that would last for ever, you can join a task oriented support group, conducted by a professional, combined with supplementary of anti smoking drugs such as Zyban or Champiks. It has been proven that these kinds of groups have the best chances to quit smoking that would last for ever.

5) Begin to look for a mate
Coping with life is better with a partner than doing it alone by your self. Therefore, if you are alone, you can start looking for a mate tomorrow morning by registering into an internet mating site, and start date in order to find your soul mate.

6) Begin to look for a job
If you don’t have a job or you are not satisfied with the one you have, you can begin by writing your own resume and spread it among manpower companies. You can also spread the rumor of you looking for a new job, among friends and family.

7) Keep taking your pills
This step is crucial for your continuous recovery of schizophrenia. What you can do is consult with your P doctor in order to reduce the amount of psychiatric pills into the minimum needed in order to maintain your mental health stability and reduce the amount of side effects into minimum.

If you take these easy steps and begin to implement them first thing in the morning, you would see that your schizophrenia negative symptoms would begin to vanish as time goes by.

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.

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1) Quit with decision
Researches have proven that only 3% of the people, who decide to quit smoking without smoking, would succeed not to smoke beyond the first year of their quitting. Therefore it is better to quit with other available methods.

2) Quit with drugs
A person who uses drugs such as Champick or Zayban has more chances to succeed with their decision to quit smoking. From my own experience with Zayban, this drug is not so dangers for schizophrenia sufferers even though it is an anti depression drug. You can give your P doctor the excuse that you prefer of receiving a psychotic disorder than to continue with your life as a smoker.

3) The combined treatment
It seems to be that the combined treatment is most affective way to quit smoking. It combines between group therapy with a professional conductor to taking anti smoking drugs such as Zayban and Champick. This method has a 50% chances to remain a non smoker even after the first year of quitting smoking and is recommended by me.

No matter what the method you decide to quit smoking with, you should remember that it would only improve your life in aspects such as – your physical health, your ability to bread, your fitness, your smell and many other reasons.

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1) War
This is the No. 1 stress maker. If you are in a war zone, try to get out of it as fast as you can or to go to a calmer area. A war and its sites can cause psychosis to people who are mentally sensitive, or went through psychosis in their past.

2) Rape
One of the most significant situations that can cause people a psychotic disorder is obtaining sexual relationships without approval of both sides. There many cases of psychosis that are being reported after such relationships.

3) Stress
A large quantity of stress in a given time period, can cause people a psychotic disorder. It is then be wise to try to be calm as much as you can.

4) Divorce or separations
A very stressful situation can be a divorce or a separation from your loved one. It can also trigger a psychotic disorder in some of the cases.

5) Death
A death of a loved one or even “just” a friend or someone you care for, can obviously cause a psychotic disorder if you are in a risk group.

In order to prevent those triggers from causing a psychotic disorder, one should turn to receive a treatment as early and close as possible to the incidents described previously. If someone shows signs of any delusions or paranoia, he should turn to get treatment without any further delay.

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1) Is he well known?
Is your P doctor well known? Ask your friends if they heard about him and does he has good reputation among other sufferers. Not loved ones and families but other sufferers.

2) Is he a manager?
It is important to have if possible at least a P doctor that is a ward manager for a start. If you can’t afford one then you can compromise, but any thing you can to receive the best treatment in order to stabilize your situation.

3) Your first goal
After you chose your own P doctor, you begin with the treatment. Your first goal during your treatment should be reducing the amount of dosage you are given down to a minimum. Your dosage should high enough to prevent your positive symptoms from accruing, and low enough in order to prevent significant side effects.

4) Telling only what is matter
Don’t tempt to tell your P doctor everything about your illness, especially if you don’t know him very good and if he is not familiar enough with your illness. If you do, your P doctor would probably change your dosage according to what you are telling him and this should be prevented.

5) Don’t hide crucial information
If you suffer from extreme changes in your feelings or your positive and negative symptoms, you have to share it with your P doctor who would probably adjust your dosage and kind of pills to the new situation. Try not to hide crucial information about your illness from your P doctor.
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1) Exercise
In order to control the amount of calories that remain in your body at the end of each day, you should get a physical activity such as exercise. In that way, you would burn more calories than gaining them as extra fat.

2) Diet
When the problem is your eating habit, then one of the most important ways of treating your weight is by controlling it with a suitable diet. In order to receive the right menu of what you can and can’t eat during the day, you should consult with a diet expert.

3) Be active
One of the most common phenomena when you suffer from schizophrenia is luck of motivation to do stuff, and therefore gaining extra weight as a result. The solution is being active. You have to find dailies activities that would force you to do stuff with yourself or with others and as a result you would burn unwanted fat.

4) Don’t eat snacks
As a result of not doing stuff and lying most of the time in front of a TV set, there is always a will to make your mouth busy. If you don’t smoke then you eat snacks, and snacks are the No. 1 cause for gaining extra weight. The solution is if you want a snack; try to eat fruits, dry fruits and vegetables instead. Don’t eat those fatty industrialized materials.

5) Reduce your medicines
This should be done only with your p doctor supervision. You can reduce your psychiatric drugs to a minimum dosage, but beware not to stop taking them completely! You should remain with an optimal dosage that would cause you minimal side affects, and still would balance and do what is supposed to from.
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1) Be active
If you need a job, don’t wait for the opportunities to fall on you from the sky. You have to look for them in an active way – ask people, read the newspapers ads, make some phone calls and even pass between organizations and stores asking if they need someone to hire.

2) Be assertive
When you are invited to interviews, try to be as assertive as possible. Show your self confidence and try to give the impression that you are someone that can be trusted. You should even try to ask for more information about the position that is offered to you. Things like salary, characterization of the position, salary and so on, are not obvious and should be asked in that kind of interview.

3) Don’t compromise
Stand up for what is suitable for you. Don’t compromise on a job that does not suit your skills. If you think that this kind of job is too easy for you or it doesn’t qualify for your qualifications, don’t hesitate to say so in your interview.

4) Don’t be too fussy
You should remember that sometimes, in order to get out of the unemployment circle, you should try not to hesitate too much when people offer you a job that does not suit you qualifications in a complete manner. Sometimes people should compromise in order to advance in life. In time, you would get better opportunities.

5) Act normal
If your interviewer doesn’t ask about your medical state, don’t jump to give him information that would harm you. If he asks in spite of that, then you can say that you went through a mental crisis in life and now you are being treated. Try to make an impression that your illness is not so significant and won’t harm your functioning with your job in the future.

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.