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You make some valid points here..people onlu fear what they do not
inderstand and often that leads to pity. I am glad that you feel no need for someone else's pity. I am sure that here, on blogit, you will find more empathy than sympathy. Be well.
posted by
Original_Influence
on December 9, 2004 at 4:23 AM
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UH
Generally people don't want to deal with any mental illness, I found that when I was trying to sober up.
I had become psychotic for sure, then epileptic, and was very close to being permanently psychotic I was told.
It tooks years of sobriety before I could get to the state I'm in now.
I can't help but think that if only medicine or psycholgy would make an effort to publicize that these things, psychosis, schizophrenia, alzheimer's, strokes etc. are diseases of the brain, and a lot of these diseases are treatable to some extent, that would go a long way to taking the pressure off the sufferer.
No, pity for you I have not, prayers I have. Good luck and keep writing hoss
posted by
WileyJohn
on December 8, 2004 at 8:43 PM
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Empathy and sympathy are too different things. A friend put it this way: a man and woman are watching a baseball game, one of the players gets hit in the groin, the woman feels sympathy, the man feels empathy. Something never experienced is sympathy. The clerk couldn't know, I can't really know what it's like to experience what you're experiencing, you can describe it, but you're the one experiencing. It is a scary thing, people associate the illness with Son of Sam and all kinds of movies, etc.
But the truth is, psychosis is a potentially dangerous state of mind. I could have hurt myself or someone else while I was psychotic, under the influence of fear and anger, projecting onto other people, its not an unreasonable fear. I'm not sure you want to tell everyone you know.
posted by
Blanche.
on December 8, 2004 at 2:19 PM
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Many times with schizophrenia, UH, there is a certain amount of fear
involved, mainly derived from the media, i.e. TV and movies, which of course, is not a clear picture. You posted on this too I think, the fear. I remembered that one, as it was so entirely true.
posted by
KlaraRoberts
on December 8, 2004 at 2:02 PM
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I think her reaction is probably very normal for someone who maybe does not know about schizophrenia. I myself know very little and would not know how to react. Until people have a basic knowledge of different conditions, they will only react with emotions like pity, disgust or even totally ignore the person in question.
posted by
Ca88andra
on December 8, 2004 at 1:54 PM
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