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Originally Posted by robbi15
Hello everyone. I have met an old friend of mine yesterday and even though I was nervous to see him it helped, he understood what I was going through and was supportive. But he said one thing that I cannot fully agree and I want to know your opinion about it. So, he said that I must ignore my psychotic episodes and he also said that I should stop reading and looking things up about my illness as it makes me too conscious about myself and he also thinks that the reason I have been having multiple episodes recently is because I know too much about my illness and was thinking about it. So he said that I should stop looking things up about my illness and just ignore and let go. Is it true? is being ignorant about my illness is good or should I read more self help book ?
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imo a lot depends on the individual, & the manifestation of the condition. Some people heal & recover, some claim they are cured - some with orthomolecular medicine, some re-framing things as spiritual crisis, or with traumagenic social recovery models, or with variations of psychological, social &/or spiritual healing approaches.
i think it's very debatable how/why some people find a more full resolution/healing to their difficulties?
Facts remain that schizophrenia is a condition with no known cure, & a severe case i think will effect the person for life, in different ways. It is probably wise within a more severe case to take a maintenance dose of medication & just accept the condition - yes live as healthy as possible - eat well, exercise, don't (ideally) drink/smoke/do street drugs & try & have some healthy patterns with everything, in a sensible way - but are there any categorical answers beyond that?
i've done a lot of research & reading on all these areas over the past 30 years - hundreds of books - many thousands of hours of research on-line. i'm left with accepting the diagnosis & taking the pills.
i've always had a strong leaning to psychosocial & spiritual/transpersonal approaches to care - others will argue other approaches, alternative & orthodox. i feel that acceptance & letting go are a key to it all.