Artikkel: "A Look Inside the Mind of Schizophrenia"

Artikkel: "A Look Inside the Mind of Schizophrenia"
Margarita Tarkovsky, World of Psychology.
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/06/04/a-look-inside-the-mind-of-schizophrenia/

Artiklis analüüsitakse E. Fuller Torrey raamatut Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Patients and Providers, mis võtab kokku skisofreenia kohta käivad eel- ja valearvamused.

Tsitaate:
"As Torrey writes, schizophrenia isn’t like a flood that washes away your possessions or a cancer with a growing tumor. We can empathize with people in such situations. Instead it’s “madness” — making it especially hard for people to make sense of what’s going on in the first place."

"Most people associate schizophrenia with hallucinations and delusions, which are indeed common. But actually, they’re not necessary for the diagnosis. As Torrey writes, “…no single symptom is essential for the diagnosis of schizophrenia. There are many people with schizophrenia who have a combination of other symptoms, such as thought disorder, disturbances of affect, and disturbances of behavior, who have never had delusions or hallucinations.”"

"So, again, imagine that you’re unable to trust your own brain and what it’s telling you. One patient described it as the problem of using a “self-measuring ruler.” Torrey writes that “you must use your malfunctioning brain to assess the malfunction of your brain.”
Torrey says that people with schizophrenia are “heroic in their attempts to keep a mental equilibrium,” considering their disordered brain functioning. The proper response from us should be one of “patience and understanding.”"