have been known to be very heavy into their faith with god? I have seen that most people who are diagnosed with this has been very much into their faith and have been told that they have a profound gift from god to be prothedic?
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Q: why is 90% of people diagnosed with schizophrenia.......
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9/24/09 10:19pm
Hello annamae,
There is no actual statistic proving this. People with schizophrenia have different symptoms. Some have religious ideation; others do not. It has not been proven across the board that this is a universal symptom.
Also: praying or attending church cannot cure a person of their schizophrenia. They must take medication in order to recover. You used the term prothedic, I take it you meant prophetic. Some people with schizophrenia believe they have gifts however not all of us do.
Regards,
Christina
9/28/09 10:57pm
Hi,
Religion can't cure schizophrenia and there's no shame in having schizophrenia, so if your friend is exhibiting symptoms of schizophrenia I urge her to help immediately. A lot of people diagnosed with schizophrenia have also had some kind of abuse in their formative years. And she could have schizophrenia at the same time she feels like a little girl trapped trying to find her dad, It is not necessarily one or the other. At the very least, therapy could be helpful for her with a licensed, qualified therapist who treats people with histories of abuse.
I would be leery of procrastinating if she had schizophrenia symptoms; the sooner you get help, the better the outcome. Drinking alcohol will only keep her disabled.
Regards,
Christina
9/25/09 7:52pm
It is fine for someone to have a spiritual counselor about things of the spirit. Likewise, it is wise to have a psychiatrist for mental problems. I would not go to my psychiatrist and ask questions of a spiritual nature; neither would I go to my pastor and ask him about mental illness. Their training and perspective is geared toward different aspects of a person's life. The two are not interchangeable.
Carolyn
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Christina;
Thank you for all your knowledge and insight on this matter. Let me share a few more details about my friend so that maybe you can help further. I am not very knowledgable with this subject but I do know my friend and have been friends with her for over 15 years. She had a horrible child hood and her father left her and her sisters at the age of 7 to marry her moms best friend. She has always struggled with this divource becausse it changed the course of her life. Secrets that her daddy told her that lets face it, he should have never told her because she was just a little girl. Then alcohol became her best friend and she used that to try to cover the pain and hurt. She was raped in her teen years and mom did nothing. She became a mother herself at age 16 with an abusive man who years later she left him.
She has always worked in the health field becuase she loves to help and take care of pp. About 13 years ago, she met her now husband who was a recovering drug and alcoholic user and he found the lord. He helped her to find god and believe me it was a very long journey and she has always said that she felt like something was chasing her even when she was young, but through her long journey into the church, she started to feel the strentgh of god and she started to help people in any way that she could. She has been told by so many people that she is prophetic and she herself isn't sure that she is but strangers that hav faith in god have stated that she is also. Through time though she has always been haunted by her childhood and it seems as though she has always been looking for the father that she lost.
She was then diagnosed with fibromylalja(spelling ?) after repeated doctors and specialists have told her nothing was wrong with her. Now she has times when she says that she can feel when the dark is coming. That she can not control it when it comes and she says that it over powers her. I know that her mind runs constantly and she says that it won't stop so that she can rest and this causes her to drink which doesn't work like it used to. So she has even taken different pills to stop her mind from running.
She has researched this herself and she states that she doesnn't want to be labeled with something if it is not correct. She is feeling like maybe this could be a spiritual issue and a counselor is not going to agree with that because they will want to link this to a meaning in the medical books and not to the bible.
I am sorry this is so long but I am really trying to help her and I don't know how to help her. I feel there is a problem but I do not feel confident that she has parionoid schizophrenia, but maybe a little girl still trapped trying to find her dad, or I just don't know but she has had so much pain from the fibro... Hope you are able to shed some more light on this subject for me. Thanks, annamae