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This is a nice thought, and I do agree that we need more a lot more of this perspective in the world. But we need to be careful not to downplay the incredibly
by dwaltrip 7y ago
This is a nice thought, and I do agree that we need more a lot more of this perspective in the world.
But we need to be careful not to downplay the incredibly severe difficulties involved in helping, treating, and even simply co-existing across the months and years with those who have schizophrenia.
I had a good friend stay with me for 2 months who ended up having significant schizophrenia-like symptoms (never found out the actual diagnosis). I tried my best to treat him like a human and get him the help he needed, but I was unable to. I don't want to go into details, but a lot of stuff happened. It was a very difficult time.
- lisper 7y agoOh, absolutely. I'm not saying that you can just treat schizophrenics like normal people and everything will be hunky-dory. All I'm saying is that not being afraid of them (because most of them (though not all) are totally harmless) is a good first step.