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fishsandwich · May 21, 2012, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by costello

I didn't mean to yell. If I sounded impatient (hope I didn't), it's probably because I feel like I'm chasing my tail trying to answer the question 'why' for my son - and for sz in general. Sometimes it seems like you can google 'schizophrenia and ______' (fill in the blank with anything), and you'll find someone saying there's a connection. I'm exaggerating a bit, but I haven't found an answer yet, and I've looked long and hard.

I meant 'yell' in the more constructive sense of 'Don't just sit there and wallow, you're better than this!!'.

I know what you mean about the links, though. EVERYTHING causes schizophrenia in someone's eyes. I don't believe there are answers, though. Not general ones, anyway.

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Originally Posted by costello

Then I see people dx w/sz beating themselves up, wondering if they caused their own problems - ususally with drugs. I want to shake them and say, "Cut it out! It doesn't matter how you got here. Just move on!" Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe if you know how or why, it can help you know what to do about it. Or maybe knowing will just give you some relief, free you from blame. Who knows.

Im one of the rare people with sz who has never done illicit drugs. I'm just not bothered. Yet, I still beat myself up.
To me, knowing why I was sectioned (not necessarily why I hallucinate or am paranoid - honestly I couldn't care less about those things) is the remedy to all my problems. The only difficult part of this for me has been avoiding psychiatry and hospitals and druggings and discrimination. So if I can figured out why I was targeted for all that in the first place, then I figure I can get myself out. Eh.

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Originally Posted by costello

I was looking for something yesterday (notes I'd made about the Radical Acceptance part of DBT, for you, fish)

That's sweet, thank you

I looked up radical acceptance and it's interesting. Again, seems very hard to achieve. A laudable goal, however.

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Originally Posted by costello

Her basic message for that 17 year old girl she once was is that it's possible to have a whole life and a psychiatric disability . . . .

I guess that's what I'm trying to say - don't "Why am I here?" but "Where do I want to go and how do I get there?"

To me, the two are linked. My life as I knew it ended when I entered psychiatry.
Also I think for some people, there is a 'why' - whether ongoing drug use or trauma or really bad self-care or whatever - that could properly be discovered and addressed. I'm sure for others there isn't. A personal issue, more than anything else.