Hello everone,
Please comment , and feel free to disagree.. I am trying to learn!
My recent understanding is that we all experience illusion/ misinterpret reality as it presents to us occasionally, but that people with paranoid schizophrenia may have particular difficulty in cross-reference checking,that helpful mental exercise which allows non-sufferers to be reassured that the illusion was just 'a trick of the light' or whatever, and drop/ forget the momentary anxiety ,confusion, and move on.
Not so for someone with sz, untreated. The worrying illusion needs an explanation,the sz brain comes up with a delusion as a working solution, even though by necessity the anxiety will be externalised and maintained as 'real', a perceived threat perhaps, which is not left behind but keeps reccurring, and may be incorporated into network / plot of connected 'explanations' that perpetuate....
This is where I think my son is at the moment. No wonder he is suffering and I feel helpless.
By the way I do like the idea of renaming sz, integration disorder or similar, as the Japanese have done, seems a very good idea.
Next post, should be lighter ,a few of my own illusions and similar!
Chris UK
If you want a fish don't go climbing trees
Chinese proverb
