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Some random thoughts: 1) My schizophrenic aunt had to be forcibly prevented from fasting on fast Sundays when she was in the State Hospital.
2) My dad used to tell me not to be too smart, or I might have a schizophrenic crisis.
3) I once insisted so strongly during a prayer on receiving a verbal confirmation to an idea that I heard a confirmation, but can not now say it wasn’t an aural hallucination.
4) I have prayed not to receive visits from the other side by those who have passed on because I feared inability to distinguish between a real visit and a hallucination.
But I still believe in visions and signs, etc.
Quote:And even if these drugs prevented some suicides, these people would fade into obscurity, known by few, admired by fewer.
This part of the article raises a moral dilemma, I think.
Is the article suggesting we
notdrug those that have so much pain and suffering in their lives, and are even suicidal? Seeing mental illness up close, it is a scary thing.
But it seems the intent of the medical community is to provide medication to help them stabilize enough that therapies and healing can have a chance to make a sustainable impact on the person’s entire life, their ability to function in society, and their relationships with others.
Medications don’t cure it. But therapy and healing sometimes can’t take place without some interventions.
The article asks a lot of questions. I don’t think society has figured out the answers yet. But, something is better than nothing when individuals have manic breakdowns.
Yes, there is that dilemma. As I’ve said elsewhere though, I do think drugging people sometimes circumvents a desire to improve their environment, whether politically, artistically or whatever. Some of our greatest geniuses have been mentally “abnormal”. Great scientists are often on their way to autism or even OCD in their obsession with procedure. Great writers and painters often have skewed view of the world which allows them critique it, and to see problems with it that many people would miss. Mentally ill people often become dissidents and activists who improve our world.
On the flipside, I look at normal people and I often see people who follow blindly, accept institutional and state violence, don’t better their lot and produce little outside their workplaces. It doesn’t have to be like that of course.
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