tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5317925651753639985.post3972387788508269933..comments2023-09-10T06:52:18.149-07:00Comments on Schizophrenia at the Schoolgate: Schizophrenia and ReadingSchizophrenia at the Schoolgatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03839755338912448705noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5317925651753639985.post-60383396587979322012-01-28T04:40:49.785-08:002012-01-28T04:40:49.785-08:00Hi
I am so glad you enjoyed my book. I have been...Hi<br /><br />I am so glad you enjoyed my book. I have been encouraged by some really positive reviews and comments on the Amazon authors' forum recently - in fact my ego may be in danger of becoming over-inflated!<br /><br />As for the Human Givens ideas; yes, I think that psychosis is indeed akin to a dream-state or a hypnotic condition. I was sleep deprived too before I became ill, on each occasion. What I do know is that psychosis is not a constant state, as it seems to the observer. I had periods of awareness - I woke up lucid in hospital (a psychiatrist told me that I had been asleep for three days after the jab I was given to knock me out) and pretty soon descended into madness again. <br /><br />During the next months my state of mind was unhinged, but I was never psychotic all of the time. Sometimes I went 'mad' again within the hospital almost deliberately because I couldn't cope with the reality of where I was and why while I was temporarily sane. (Maybe psychosis is a little like lucid dreaming - something that used to happen to me a lot, but doesn't much now; I am too tired by the time I get to bed!)<br /><br />These flashes of ordinary consciousness, even when the patient is in the grip of psychosis, show that there is great potential for recovery - see John Read's 'Making Sense of Madness'.<br /> <br />Incidentally, I recently came across quite a new site called 'Schizophrenia Forums' set up by a Canadian 'Schizophrenic'. It has some really amazing information - mostly because the writer of four blogs, one of them 'Jungian Approaches to Psychosis' another 'Spiritual Recovery' another 'Spiritual Emergency' (sorry, I forget the fourth) is a regualar contributor and has put together a whole ream of links to articles, books, films etc on the site. I would strongly recommend that anyone with an interest in mental health takes a look at all this - the research done is methodical and exacting. Go to the 'Recovery' thread on the front board of the Forum.<br /> <br />Back to Human Givens; I also agree with the insight that there are certain 'Human Givens' that we all require in order to flourish; adequate living conditions, nourishment, love and so on. That the absence of the human givens in a person's upbringing causes dysfunction and their introduction to someones's life can correspondinly heal that person, is also an inspirational idea. I just lost faith in the book while reading the autism chapter - it seemed so speculative and undignified. I will go back to reading both of the Human Givens books that I bought - I should have persevered with them in the first place. Time just seems so limited these days - I am trying to cram too much in and end up not finishing everything properly.<br /><br />All the best<br /><br />Louise xSchizophrenia at the Schoolgatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03839755338912448705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5317925651753639985.post-4527014640938099172012-01-27T14:00:06.741-08:002012-01-27T14:00:06.741-08:00I just finished reading your book and enjoyed it v...I just finished reading your book and enjoyed it very much. I have also read one of the Human Givens books: "Dreaming Reality". I think that the authors are putting the finger on something important when they compare psychosis to REM sleep as well as the state of hypnosis. My son certainly looked stuck in a dream-state when he was wandering around in the grip of psychosis or may be as if a stage hypnotist had hypnotised him. I wished I had known how to click my fingers to get him out of this strange state. He had been badly sleep deprived before becoming psychotic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com