Posted in Definition, Schizophrenia Characterization | December 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Many professional care givers are certain today more than ever that schizophrenia reflects and mirror the real world through psychosis and psychotic disorders. More than ever, they are sure that psychotic delusions shows resemblance to the real world and taken out from it.
It is not a secret that a psychotic disorder, draw its materials from the real world. Psychotic delusions meet the outside world through the sufferer’s thoughts. His delusions are made of his life experiences, from his past, his memories and his family relations. Read the rest of "Schizophrenia Definition – Schizophrenia Mirrors The Real World" »
Posted in Relationships | December 2nd, 2008 6 Comments »
When people ask me what is the most important aspect in your recovery, I tend to tell them that it is my relationships with my soul mate – my wife. For she is the one that support my way, most of my recent years as a sufferer.
Unfortunately, most of the sufferers I know are single. The reasons for that are not always similar, Read the rest of "Intimate Relationships With Mental Illness – The Most Important Pillar" »
Posted in Deal With Psychosis, Depression, First Aid, Treatment | December 1st, 2008 2 Comments »
One of the most common dangers after a psychosis disorder is harming yourself. It can happen because usually after getting out from the psychotic state of mind, people tend to develop a post psychotic depression. A post psychotic depression is when you don’t feel anything; you act like a zombie, living your life without meaning like a machine. I call this state to become “Extinguished”.
In order to avoid people that went into a psychotic depression from harming Read the rest of "Dangers With Schizophrenia – Ways To Avoid Of Harming Yourself" »
Posted in Deal With Schizophrenia | November 30th, 2008 2 Comments »
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 Read the rest of "Exposure With Schizophrenia – Ways Of Accepting Your Disorder" »
Posted in Deal With Schizophrenia, Treatment | November 29th, 2008 No Comments »
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 Read the rest of "Alternative Treatment For Schizophrenia vs. A Conventional Drug Treatment" »
Posted in Deal With Psychosis, Definition, Schizophrenia Characterization | November 28th, 2008 No Comments »
From my own experience, very common phenomena when a person who has psychotic disorder, share is a very rapid thinking. You feel like as if an atom bomb is exploding inside your mind.
It feels like your thoughts are going from one to another, without being able to control them. You jumps from one Read the rest of "Thinking Rapidly When Having Psychosis Symptoms" »
Posted in Bad Habits, Deal With Schizophrenia | November 27th, 2008 2 Comments »
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. Read the rest of "Quit Smoking With Schizophrenia – Is It Possible To Stop Smoking?" »
Posted in Deal With Schizophrenia, Paranoia | November 26th, 2008 3 Comments »
The paranoia symptoms in short are – being suspicious, thinking that everybody is plotting some kind of a conspiracy. You suspects that your friends, parents, neighbors, colleague are talking about you, everybody wants to harm you or even want to kill you. You are sure that people are following you in the street, and so on.
But, after all those scary things that can happen to you, Read the rest of "Paranoia Symptoms – The Bright Side Of Being Paranoid" »
Posted in Deal With Psychosis, Deal With Schizophrenia, First Aid | November 25th, 2008 No Comments »
How to convince your loved one to get the proper treatment? This is the one million dollar question!
Many people ask me this question after they get frustrated and almost give up trying and convincing they’re loved one to receive the proper medical treatment they need.
From my own experience and personal knowledge, Read the rest of "Getting Treatment – Ways Of Convincing Your Loved One With Schizophrenia Or Psychosis To Get Treatment" »
Posted in Relationships | November 24th, 2008 No Comments »
Falling in love is the most basic characteristic of humane being. With out getting in love, there won’t be a continuation to our generation. People who get in love are realizing they’re own existence.
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? Read the rest of "My Wife Psychotic – Relationships Between A Schizophrenia Sufferer And A Normal Person" »