Hey there 'Anti-Psych' types....

Hi guys and gals, I've been told this is where I should hang out. After years of being labeled I just recieved a new one 'Anti-Psych' not sure how to take it, so here I am. I'm gonna cut and paste my original post in the Schizophrenia thread and would love anyone who has some time to join me there. I do not intend to open an antipsychiatry issue in the Scizophrenia thread, but being diagnosed varyingly from schizoaffective to plain old schizophrenic, and currently coming toward the end of a BSc in Anthropology I am very interested in speaking to other service users. I have focused on Schizophrenic type illnesses through the course, and hope to continue onto an MSc in Medical Anthropology which would inturn lead to a PhD thesis. Hope some of you are interested in throwing some thoughts my way...


http://psychforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=73522#73522

well, i don't believe in personality problems for once. but im wondering if you got out of the negative symptoms of schizo. how do you regain your passion once it has virtually gone- i believe in trating symptoms of hopelesness if these are present. but what i've got it can be defined as a broken spirit. or lost of religion. i can barely type because i dont find interest in anything. i've experienced many illness, maybe im hypocondriac, but the only real illness i see is the spirit. when you've lost your passion for life.
i.e. u dont write, paint, play, talk, etc ( well. since you'r focused on schizo's types. im just wondering how did you got out of it, was it something external? i.e. meting someone.-or internal (i.e. drugs) because for all i know i wouldn't even study antropology if i had no passion.. im goin off topic. i hate human beings are supposedly made of chemicals and energy- maybe we'r robots after all- i know we'r not robots--robots don't dream. or do they. god i hate aquarius people- but got to love them. they've got great insight-

Hey maybe I'm not out The paper was called Theseus and the Labyrinth, but there is really not just one hero in this, there's a whole forum here with people struggling to varying degrees to make sense of their conditions. My diagnosis is not just Schizophrenia, but it has been in the past. It more often is schizoaffective disorder which is a lovely bargain 'two for one' package which mixes up schizophrenia with manic depression.

I know exactly what you mean about losing passion, having a broken spirit. I used to play my guitar everyday, write songs, poetry, but these days I rarely do. I have become bogged down in a normal life; marriage, kids, work, and studies.

If I am out or on my way out, I definately bear some scars.

At the time I was first diagnosed I had a whole set of strange beliefs. I still have them, but I will use a 'Lord of the Rings' analogy (hope you've seen the film!). When Gandalf the Grey falls into the abyss fighting the Balrog, he is lost to his friends and we presume lost to himself i.e. dead. yet later we meet a somewhat confused Gandalf, but he is no longer Gandalf the Grey, he is now Gandalf the White. I like to call this 'broken bone theory', as bones that have broken and ultimately healed can be stronger at that point than before, and bones rarely break at the same place twice...

I think that there is importance in being in touch with your 5 senses.Sight,touch,smell,taste,and sound.I get meaning in life by things like sitting in the garden,seeing the buety in what is around me,feeling the sunshine,tasting an icecream,hearing a buetifull voice singing,smelling the flowers,and being gratefull for these things.

Its easy to wake up and feel nothing,to feel it just isnt all worth it.Another day.This is called apathy,and is a symptom of depression. I believe all psychiactric labels are #######4.Utter garbage and crap.There are reasons for mentall illness.Either medical or emotional.All psych drugs and labels do is make you give up searching.

I believe everyone responds to things differently according to their personalities.Psych labels are just stupid.

starry wrote:This is called apathy,and is a symptom of depression.

And depersonalization.