I find Schizophrenia to be a highly fascinating mental disorder. Outside my curiosity of its sorta alienated nature alluring me, my fascination was boosted when one of my former school concealers said I had several of the symptoms of schizophrenia. To clarify, neither me nor her believe I have the mental disorder, nor have my tendencies been harmful enough to consider such a possibility. However, Introspectively thinking about it lead me to notice some interesting parallels. I live life with the mentality that I am never certain about anything about the world. One of my mottos that follows this is “there is no absolute truth, only what we know of the unknown.” This does sorta parallel a schizophrenic’s uncertainty towards the world around them, though I would like to think my outlook is more so out of choice than disillusionment. This branch between schizophrenia shows the potential of being shorter in The slow death of the concept of schizophrenia
While it is commonly believed that people with Schizophrenia have a genetic displacement for experiencing it, which is still believed in this article, the study goes over the different possible levels of a manifested psychosis, alongside the environmental issues that tend to be associated with Schizophrenia. I remember when going over genetic disorders in a class a long time ago, a high school science teacher of mine had stated how children whose parents had schizophrenia were more likely to develop it. After hearing this I enquired that was it because of genetics, or because these children with schizophrenic parents were exposed to the behavior, making them more susceptible to take from it due to the human brain’s natural adaptability.
Through Yrjö Alanen’s studies
it seems he believes that Schizophrenia is sort of a type of uncontrolled escapism, noticing similarities between a Schizophrenic’s altered perception, and their own standard problems in life. A commonality between Yrjö’s does seem to be a newfound sense of importance through Scitophrnia. This is probably due to the 2 theories on how schizophrenia is formed that Yrjö implied. Either mentally regressing to avoid major trama, or restructuring one’s world view to avoid trama. In both cases, it seems a higher focus self-importance would be formed.
I have stated previously that I believe all humans are on the mental disorder spectrum to some degree, it is only when these behaviors start to become harmful for one’s self and or others that one is designated as mentally ill. The research in this article “The slow death of the concept of schizophrenia” does sort of support this logic. The human brain is the most complicated piece of machinery out there, thus it’s incredibly complicated to just outright categorize humans, due to a great number of individual differences that are present in humans, and the potential for even more differences to appear latter. Due to this, it seems foolish to treat schizophrenia as having a set amount of solvents. However, If I have to suggest something for all Scitzophenics, it is a focus on qualitative research. Personal exposure to other humans has consistently shown to increase a schizophrenic’s trust and social interactions. Even if the research shows to be successful in certain areas, it should better inform a researcher how to deal with an individual’s predicament.
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