As one of its symptoms Schizophrenia weakens our self-esteem, our ability to know that our own perceptions and opinions and feelings are true and worthy to be respected and even defended. When recovery sets in, there is this long phase where we can look back at everything we experienced with a clear mind and often come to the conclusion : wait, this was so wrong! This is what some people call the phase of "hypersanity" - not that we are somehow enlightened or sth, but that in order to come back from a place of diminished sanity, you need to have some kind of hypersanity force to pull you back at least to the sane level, and that entails that for some things we are left with real "insights" about life and our world, as if in compensation for all the suffering we have successfully put behind us. I sometimes say the opposite of a schizophrenic state is a kind of "Trumpness". This has become all the more true given the recent developments of his life. While many suspect schizophrenics of being potential criminals and harmful individuals (even Trump said that recently about "those" people coming as immigrants), a very common trait is instead: being rather docile, overconsiderate, "agreeable", seldom insisting. A video like this takes a lot of courage! And yet, imagine if things like that happened to a "normal" person. Imagine it happened to someone like "Trump". Wouldn't the tone be much more outraged, angry and determined? Wouldn't they say: I'm going to find that nurse and tell her that was not right! I will sue the hospital! I will demand compensation for the mistreatment I had to suffer! I will launch a campaign with friends raising awareness to the conditions in institutions! Of course, the social and mental pressure such actions would entail would be very difficult to bare for people with experiences in psychosis. So, are we in need of special lawyers? A huge support community with trialog members under which protection we can voice our truth? Or is it indeed best to just let the past be the past and exclusively focus on "positivity" and "future possibilities"? When your body and mind are seeing progress in recovery, the next in line healing is: our soul. The soul is the only thing that has been with us through all times. In times of weak body and mind, we acted naturally out of the innate wisdom and reflexes of our soul. Now that we recover, all those heavy emotions, all those trials and tribulations overcome, must be processed, integrated, transcended. It is a complex and long process, but very rewarding and insightful. What about your honor? Your dignity? Your self-esteem? Your worth as an individual in society? But I tell you this: We people with experience(s) in psychosis have a RIGHT to be treated at bright places, clean, friendly, respectful, considerate, sensitive, encouraging, holistic. We are not beggars that should be happy about any little breadcrumb of intervention someone may throw at us with disdain! It is even possible to use our power of delusions to our advantage in recovery: I frequently reframe my experiences by sitting down and going into the feeling: what if I was Obama? What if I was Trump? How would people have treated me? And how would I have ensured to be respected? To me it's important to do such thought experiments, and then close that box and see what is realistically possible in my own life right now. The healing of the Soul is multifaceted and full of deep emotions, but also necessary and deeply rewarding. As we can see with Lauren, for many of us, a bright future with a little sense for hypersanity might await us after some years of hard toil. I wish you good luck on your journey! Your soul has protected you through all of this, has kept your "integrity" throughout the most extreme human experiences. But maybe that is even how souls become the strongest, through "trials and tribulations", but also: a world where things finally feel right and hope and encouragement are waiting around each corner, cause we finally could let the values of our soul shine and let it create a world, step by step, in which the lessons we learned materialize themselves in a better world, better decisions, better relationships, whatever our neurodiversity might be ... Wish you all the best on your journey! 😇 🌻🕊️🙏
As one of its symptoms Schizophrenia weakens our self-esteem, our ability to know that our own perceptions and opinions and feelings are true and worthy to be respected and even defended. When recovery sets in, there is this long phase where we can look back at everything we experienced with a clear mind and often come to the conclusion : wait, this was so wrong! This is what some people call the phase of "hypersanity" - not that we are somehow enlightened or sth, but that in order to come back from a place of diminished sanity, you need to have some kind of hypersanity force to pull you back at least to the sane level, and that entails that for some things we are left with real "insights" about life and our world, as if in compensation for all the suffering we have successfully put behind us. I sometimes say the opposite of a schizophrenic state is a kind of "Trumpness". This has become all the more true given the recent developments of his life. While many suspect schizophrenics of being potential criminals and harmful individuals (even Trump said that recently about "those" people coming as immigrants), a very common trait is instead: being rather docile, overconsiderate, "agreeable", seldom insisting. A video like this takes a lot of courage! And yet, imagine if things like that happened to a "normal" person. Imagine it happened to someone like "Trump". Wouldn't the tone be much more outraged, angry and determined? Wouldn't they say: I'm going to find that nurse and tell her that was not right! I will sue the hospital! I will demand compensation for the mistreatment I had to suffer! I will launch a campaign with friends raising awareness to the conditions in institutions! Of course, the social and mental pressure such actions would entail would be very difficult to bare for people with experiences in psychosis. So, are we in need of special lawyers? A huge support community with trialog members under which protection we can voice our truth? Or is it indeed best to just let the past be the past and exclusively focus on "positivity" and "future possibilities"? When your body and mind are seeing progress in recovery, the next in line healing is: our soul. The soul is the only thing that has been with us through all times. In times of weak body and mind, we acted naturally out of the innate wisdom and reflexes of our soul. Now that we recover, all those heavy emotions, all those trials and tribulations overcome, must be processed, integrated, transcended. It is a complex and long process, but very rewarding and insightful. What about your honor? Your dignity? Your self-esteem? Your worth as an individual in society? But I tell you this: We people with experience(s) in psychosis have a RIGHT to be treated at bright places, clean, friendly, respectful, considerate, sensitive, encouraging, holistic. We are not beggars that should be happy about any little breadcrumb of intervention someone may throw at us with disdain! It is even possible to use our power of delusions to our advantage in recovery: I frequently reframe my experiences by sitting down and going into the feeling: what if I was Obama? What if I was Trump? How would people have treated me? And how would I have ensured to be respected? To me it's important to do such thought experiments, and then close that box and see what is realistically possible in my own life right now. The healing of the Soul is multifaceted and full of deep emotions, but also necessary and deeply rewarding. As we can see with Lauren, for many of us, a bright future with a little sense for hypersanity might await us after some years of hard toil. I wish you good luck on your journey! Your soul has protected you through all of this, has kept your "integrity" throughout the most extreme human experiences. But maybe that is even how souls become the strongest, through "trials and tribulations", but also: a world where things finally feel right and hope and encouragement are waiting around each corner, cause we finally could let the values of our soul shine and let it create a world, step by step, in which the lessons we learned materialize themselves in a better world, better decisions, better relationships, whatever our neurodiversity might be ... Wish you all the best on your journey! 😇 🌻🕊️🙏
We couldnt go out to smoke
6 months! Damn i was only 3 weeks