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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?"

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  1. IANAD?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Uhm, how about you ask your fucking doctor instead of the idiots here?

  2. it's my fault by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've been secretly fucking your sister in the ass for quite some time. I think it finally broke her.

  3. Great movie! by openSoar · · Score: 0, Troll

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

  4. Re:God be with you by flok · · Score: -1, Troll

    As if that helps.

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  5. Re:God be with you by CrosseyedPainless · · Score: 0, Troll

    *You* really read Slashdot?

  6. Re:Just Remember... by F34nor · · Score: -1, Troll

    Schizophrenia means split personality, meaning a split between afect or expressed emtion and cognition or thought. So a person with Schizophrenia cannot connect emotion with thought. Not a good thing for a human being.

    In fact there is no such thing as multipule personality disorder. They have never found a case study where the subject had no prioir knowdge of the movie "Two Faces of Eve."

  7. not bad.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm fine with it. And so am I.

  8. Re:Asking for psychiatric advice on Slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Leave me alone. It is not his fault he was not privileged to a good education. All he had was Sesame "slum" street.

    It's that yellow birds fault, Big fruit cake. He really is a huge drug addict, buying smack, pow, whip, pop, ruffies, reefer, stop, drop and roll on Mr. Hupper's corner. Oscar got burnt out a long time ago, so much that all he does it talk to that stupid worm. Today's letter is "S" for STONER!!!!. Se habla Espanole, JOINT?? Yeah, don't mess with Elmo, he is always hopped up on laughing gas. Tickle this!! The Count is a wack job with all the bats and lighting, how about sucking the neck of reality freak. He obviously did not get enough love as a child.

    Just stick to Night Quill and Dragon Ball Z.

    Ka-me-ha-me-ha

  9. Re:God be with you by LordK3nn3th · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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  10. About quality of life... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What are the long term implications for quality of life?

    I'm afraid the best course of action is to take your sister out back behind the shed and put her down Old-Yeller-style. I guess, for kicks, you could rape her before you pull the trigger. She probably won't even notice.

    Or you could let me do it, for a nominal fee (rape).

  11. HERE'S AN IDEA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck her! Fuck her sane! Just slam the bitch, alternating between her pussy and her ass until she's fixed.

    When she tells your mother that you fucked her, your mother will believe you because you're not the CRAZY one.

    BT

  12. Re:Twenty-one Ways to Be a Good Liberal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Rules for Being a Republican

    1. Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you are millionaire conservative radio jock, which makes it an "illness" and needs our prayers for your "recovery".
    2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own.
    3. You have to believe that the US should get out of the UN, and that our highest national priority is enforcing UN resolutions against Iraq.
    4. You have to believe that government should stay out of people's lives but it needs to punish anyone caught having private sex with the "wrong" gender.
    5. You have to believe that pollution is ok, so long as it makes a profit.
    6. You have to believe in prayer in schools, as long as you don't pray to Allah or Buddha.
    7. "Standing Tall for America" means firing your workers and moving their jobs to India.
    8. You have to believe that a woman cannot be trusted with decisions about her own body, but that large multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind with no regulation whatsoever.
    9. You have to believe that you love Jesus and Jesus loves you, and that Jesus shares your hatred of AIDS victims, homosexuals, and Hillary Clinton.
    10. You hate the ACLU for representing convicted felons, but they owed it to the country to bail out Oliver North.
    11. You have to believe that the best way to encourage military morale is to praise the troops overseas whilecutting their VA benefits.
    12. You believe that group sex and drug use are degenerate sins that can only be purged by running for governor of California as a Republican.
    13. You have to believe it is wise to keep condoms out of schools, because we all know if teenagers don't have condoms they won't have sex.
    14. You have to believe that the best way to fight terrorism is to alienate our allies and then demand their cooperation and money.
    15. You have to believe that government medicine is wrong and that HMO's and insurance companies only have your best interests at heart.
    16. You have to believe that providing health care to all Iraqis is sound government policy but providing health care to all Americans is socialism personified.
    17. You believe that tobacco's link to cancer and global warming are "junk science", but Creationism should be taught in schools.
    18. You have to believe that waging war with no exit strategy was wrong in Vietnam but right in Iraq.
    19. You have to believe that Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney was doing business with him, and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion.
    20. You believe that government should restrict itself to just the powers named in the Constitution, which includes banning gay marriages and censoring the internet.
    21. You have to believe that the public has a right to know about the adulterous affairs of Democrats, while those of Republicans are a "private matter".
    22. You have to believe that the public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades but that Bush was right to censor those 28 pages from the Congressional 9/11 report because you just can't handle the truth.
    23. You support state rights, which means Ashcroft telling states what locally passed voter initiatives he will allow them to have.
    24. You have to believe that what Clinton did in the 1960's is of vital national interest but what Bush did decades later is "stale news" and "irrelevant".
    25. You have to believe that trade with Cuba is wrong because it is communist, but trading with China and Vietnam is just dandy.

  13. What's really important is... by pimpybra · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is your sister hot?

  14. Re:God be with you by LordK3nn3th · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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  15. Re:God be with you by LordK3nn3th · · Score: -1, Troll

    Really? God has helped you? You have any sort of demonstratable evidence, some indication that is beyond chance and unexpected events, besides your "gut feeling" and "dogmatic passion"? No?

    Argument from common belief, anyone? These type of people are certainly reliant on fallacies.

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  16. Re:A friend of mine was scizofrenic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    suggestions: they're coming to get you. we know where you live.

  17. Re:God be with you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I''m sorry to hear of your sister's mental trouble. I'll ask my invisible friend to help you.

  18. Re:And people don't believe in eugenics by benzapp · · Score: 0, Troll

    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!

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  19. MOD PARENT UP +5 INFORMATIVE by HarryCallahan · · Score: -1, Troll

    What the subject says