Category: Schizophrenia

  • Recovery & Schizophrenia

    Recovery & Schizophrenia

    At little while ago I was reflecting on what I had learnt of schizophrenia, drawing on my experience too.   I have been to a number of events discussing schizophrenia over the past three years. A key one was on recovery. Recovery is about changing our lives rather than changing our biochemistry. Recovery is a…

  • Schizophrenia and the Law

    Schizophrenia and the Law

    by Lydia Schizophrenia is a brain disease that affects over two million Americans each year. People diagnosed with schizophrenia usually usually act very out of character. They will often begin to do and say very strange things. Most often, the changes can be seen in the things that they do habitually. As a result of their…

  • Perceptions of Schizophrenia

    The word schizophrenia translates roughly as “splitting of the mind” and comes from the Greek  roots schizein (σχίζειν, “to split”) and phrēn, phren- (φρήν, φρεν-, “mind”). I  found myself in a mental hospital after collapsing at a major airport.  I was to discover 18 years later that the diagnosis was schizophrenia.  I experienced visual hallucinations, collapsing at…

  • Lessons Learnt In Schizophrenia Recovery

    I was watching a child with learning disability fixated with his game on his mobile device.   I tried to take the game away from the child and get into conversation with him but he violently resisted as he was locked in his own world.    The kid was simply oblivious to his environment.  His oblivion gave me parallels…

  • The Day I Found Out it was Schizophrenia

    My right hand was shaking.  In it was the doctor’s letter.  There was that S word.  On the letter.  It may as well have stood for a swear word. Did you know this?  I fired. Chuck’s eyes were registering surprise. There was now an oppressive air hanging in our living room.  Why was mental illness…

  • A Beautiful Mind, A Courageous Heart

    Last week we all heard the news of the passing on of John Nash and his wife following a car crash in New Jersey .  This made Zoe and I get out the movie ” A Beautiful Mind”.   Words that stuck with me from the movie were “Schizophrenia is degenerative” from the psychiatrist that…