Have you read any good books on schizophrenia? Either, for instance, a novel or story that has a major character with the illness, or a good nonfiction book. My brother has it and I want to learn more, but he's not open at all to talking about it (or much else). (inb4 "Capitalism and Schizophrenia" - I will not read a book with this title unless someone can give me a very good reason to.)
Have you read any good books on schizophrenia? Either, for instance...
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Grayson Adams
If you mean medical schizophrenia, R.D. Laing is a good place to start (read The Divided Self).
Deleuze and Guattari take the medical model of the illness and move it more to the realm of philosophy
Bentley Hall
Check out Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, my man. It's a book written by a late 19th century schizophrenic.
William Stewart
I have it. More likely that I have bipolar disorder or schizoaffective disorder.
I don't know any good novels or stories. I only know the research by Badcock and Crespi. I'll dump some of that stuff but can understand if it doesn't interests you. They propose that schizophrenia and autism are diametrically opposed. They have plenty of stuff that backs up their theory but time will tell.
Some of the stuff I will dump contains features of schizophrenia (and autism) so perhaps that interests you.
Badcock wrote a book about this theory, the imprinted brain theory, but I don't think it is worth it, I much prefer the papers.
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Grayson Kelly
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Zachary Hall
thank you sir. Hope you're doing okay.
Asher Rogers
VALIS maybe
Colton Price
I'll give you a bit of a summary too. There's negative and positive symptoms in schizophrenia. The delusions, hallucinations and so on are the "psychosis" and this is the positive (addition) part. Flat feeling, incapable of feeling pleasure or enjoyment is part of the negative symptoms. Medications might play their role in the latter too.
I hope your brother doesn't have a severe case. I know a schizophrenic who has the delusions, hallucinations etc. (psychosis) on a weekly or monthly basis. I've only had it two times with years in between. And I don't suffer from any cognitive decline which many schizophrenics have. That and because of other things has made my psychiatrists and other care takers think I might be bipolar instead.
If I knew your brother I would advice him to excersise and take care of his diet. The medication can be unpleasant but it is a necessary evil. My experience with psychiatrists is bad and good. Some described me medication (anti-depressants) that I didn't want to take and forced on me. And they described me addictive pills. I understand (now) that it is sometimes necessary to take such pills but they seem a bit overly eager and sometimes even force you (they intimidated me and used my mother) to take certain pills.
Good luck to your brother, let's hope he will recover.