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I'm also a little mystified as to why some people become so reactionary when the topic of schizophrenia and recovery is raised. I can't help but think that this would be encouraging information -- information that people would want to share with others. What I have found however is that some people find the very idea to be deeply threatening. They react with hostility and often will attempt to do everything in their power to keep you from "speaking" or "being heard".

... if what I might have to say is so worthless that no one should hear it, why did they go to such efforts to silence me?

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I think you have answered your own question.

Why in the 17th century did many "authorities" reject the "new information" that Galileo offered? Why in the 19th century were the findings of Semmelweiss rejected by the majority of obstetricians in Vienna -- at the cost of the lives of the patients whom they were obliged to help?