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Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions?
Jagercola asks: "My sister was recently diagnosed with Schizophrenia. It's a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease that we don't know a lot about. The movie, A Beautiful Mind, paints an accurate picture of how the disease affects someone in a best case scenario. I would like the vast audience here to help me understand the disease through experiences and that it might help me aid my sister. If you know someone how has the disease, how has it affected your and their life? How have you been able to cope with it? What are the long term implications for quality of life?"
I'm not schizophraenic. Yes I am.
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Wow... That's both off-topic and just about the biggest piece of crap I've read this month. Congratulations! I don't even know how I'd mod it...
1) WTF does this have to do with the topic?
2) For some stupid reason, I remember reading that the whole Betsy Ross thing is a myth. All she did, at most, was suggest how many points to put on the stars of our flag. Google "betsy ross myth" for more.
3) Hillary Clinton is certainly not normal, and I'm surprised you assume she's a person. Frankly...Stepford wife from hell?
One recently discovered variation of schizophrenia causes the sufferer to experience bizarre delusions of property-ownership, as well as the paranoid belief that an international conglomerate of shadow agents - and their masses of followers - are trying to steal aforementioned property and subvert the sufferer's day-to-day life.
Doctors are starting to refer to it as "McBride Disorder."
Once I figure out how to hack Hiawatha, I will crapflood the Boston Globe itself! No one will notice -- they'll just think they bought the Herald instead!
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It's subsidized by the Federal Government, paid for by John Q. Taxpayer, don't pretend its anything different.
And if he keeps taking speed, I say lock him up.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Does anyone have any idea why this was modded Troll?
This is likely the most intelligent-sounding* post I've seen on Slashdot recently. I kept waiting to read about hot grits, a beowulf cluster, something about Jar Jar being the root of all evil or something like that. For a second there, I thought I was on the wrong site.
*I have to say "intelligent-sounding" because I know little about schizophrenia.
Insert simplistic political, ideological, or personal proselytization here.
(Many) Atheists don't claim to know the answer for sure. Semantic quibbling aside, most atheists don't believe in/disbelieve in god the same way you don't believe in/disbelieve in bigfoot. Sure, it could exist, but there's either no definite way to know and it's rather unlikely given the nature of the claim. Agnosticism isn't necessarily a middle ground between atheism and theism-- one could be agnostic and be the other.
And why does praying hurt? It wastes time. It does absolutely nothing but waste time. If you want to feel good about doing something for an ill person, work for them, not being lazy and pretending you're doing something when you're really not.
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Never criticize religion on Slashdot. You will be modded down for "Troll" no matter how factual it is.
And interestingly enough, the popularly accepted schizophrenia of Christianity is just as dangerous to the health of bystanders as a maniac is to those around him. Think the Crusades, the Inquisition, the puritanical Witch Burnings, etc.