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?"

Comments

Great movie!

[openSoar]

I loved that Russell Crowe movie - his name was Maximus though - Schizophrenia was his cousin I think.

Re:God be with you

[CrosseyedPainless]

*You* really read Slashdot?

Re:God be with you

[LordK3nn3th]

Good thing not everyone turned to prayer. Scientists have actually researched schizophrenia and have come up with many medications to help people live with this horrible mental disorder.

Progress comes with hands working, not hands praying.

What's really important is...

[pimpybra]

Is your sister hot?

Re:God be with you

[LordK3nn3th]

Prayer isn't really a form of medicine, it's asking a deity to do something for you.

Trying telling most people that prayer is merely a synonym for meditation and you'd be laughed at. Don't redefine terms to fit your biases and needs, and expect me to follow them.

Re:And people don't believe in eugenics

[benzapp]

PS: and no, i wouldnt stop with this post, i'd love to whip your stupid ass any day of the week...show you what pain is.

"Whether it is hedonism or pessimism, utilitarianism or eudaemonism - all these ways of thinking that measure the value of thing in accordance with pleasure and pain , which are mere epiphenomena and wholly secondary, are ways of thinking that stay in the foreground and naivetes on which everyone conscious of creative powers and an artistic conscience will look down not without derision, nor without pity. Pity with you - that, of course, is not pity in your sense: it is not pity with social "distress", with "society" and its sick and unfortunate members, with those addicted to vice and maimed from the start, though the ground around us is littered with them; it is even less pity with grumbling, sorely pressed, rebellious slave strata who long for dominion, calling it "freedom". Our pity is a higher and more farsighted pity: we see how man makes himself smaller, how you make him smaller - and there are moments when we behold your very pity with indescribable anxiety, when we resist this pity - when we find your seriousness more dangerous than any frivolity. You want, if possible - and there is no more insane "if possible" - to abolish suffering . And we? It really seems that we would rather have it higher and worse than ever. Well-being as you understand it - that is no goal, that seems to us an end , a state that soon makes man ridiculous and contemptible - that makes his destruction desirable ." - Friedrich Nietzsche

You see, my hypocritical friend, I love pain. In fact, nothing would please me more than a long, grueling battle to the death with a sanctimonious subhuman like yourself. While I love suffering, I love beauty even more. While I would take no pleasure in slowly ending your life, the mere thought that our polluted could be purified by your death tittles my heart with such great pleasure I can hardly contain myself. You see, I desire your death only because you degrade a beautiful planet and species. You are nothing but a mistake, a smudge on the canvas of life.

You see, your threats and idle ramblings mean nothing to me. Your own words prove you are nothing but a disease amongst our species. A sick, writhing waste of life, one of billions who are slowly but surely degrading our people, and our planet.

PS: its spelled Auschwitz - Arbeit Macht Frei!