I am actually proud of who I am , and for the most part of what I've done. There is little regret. I have an idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I've made a decent recovery but I want to go further. Being able to work for example. Many argue that here that we are very different , I think in fact we are very similar. In terms of mental illness because of innate complexity in the brain by virtue of what it does , it is inevitable that symptoms will differ. Im fine with that. But I believe that schizophrenia is characterized by a manner of thinking that is remarkably similar across the phenotypes. Delusions for example are remarkably similar regarding basic themes , the difference where they exist is down to individual thought processes. The precursor to delusions , the mitigating circumstances, I believe is largely a biological process , the delusions are incidental to the whims of the mind. So I dont believe in uniqueness , at least the spiritual kind. Human behaviour and cognitive action is manipulated by Advertising execs not because they have unique knowledge of an individual person , no its because they have different psychological profiles, built from , meticulous research. The neuro-anatomy and neural pathway and signalling in the brain have now being mapped to different profiles. From a list of basic questions where a subject answers a researcher can make a number of sound assumptions on a persons personality on how likely they are to answer another list of questions. How ? By reasoning that is predictive and by using various psychological modelling tools. Why ? because we are very similar.

So I believe so much can be garnered from a recovered 'schizophrenic'

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