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If you have read the first part, which talks about two approaches to Schizophrenia, you know that I prefer to work with the second approach, based on the idea that first there was the thought, and then the rest. In the case of schizophrenia that would mean that first certain distorted thoughts developed, leading to distorted brain activity. This second page dealing with schizophrenia talks about the external influences that - seen from the thought-as-cause-perspective - are not beneficial. I already put out a few warnings about the controversial nature of these pages on the first page.
Much has been written about the importance of thoughts and the power of intentions on this site. It is therefore not meant as a provocation to pay attention to certain items that would appear very ciritical if one were to explore the value of the second approach sincerely. To make it easier to write I pretend to address people who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Here are a few thought forms that probably need to be transcended:
- SCHIZOPHRENIA IS LIKE DIABETES
If you allow this thought form to reside in your system that says that you have fallen into a disease that is comparable to diabetes you debilitate your power to change anything. If you accept that no matter what you think or do, there is no way to get 'cured' from schizophrenia, this is your future.
- YOU MUST KEEP ON TAKING YOUR DRUGS
If you insist on taking your drugs because you think that if you stop taking them you will end up psychotic, you are very likely to end up psychotic indeed. Of course this is a dangerous topic. I would like to stress that it is unwise to immediately stop taking all drugs for two main reasons:
- Your brain has become addicted to the drugs. If you stop taking them at once, you are likely to suffer from withdrawal sympoms which are bound to resemble the original characteristics of your psychosis. It is therefore tempting to get reinforced in the idea that you need the drugs, for if you stop taking them your disease returns. It could however be that if you slowly reduce the amount of drugs you take (together with a psychiatrist) the withdrawal effects could be less severe.
- The original thought forms that would have caused certain brain patterns are likely to still exist. If you are not able to deal with these thoughts or recognize them you are very likely to create the same neurological effects again: the same delusions and hallucinations.
- PSYCHOTHERAPY IS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE
If you think that it is dangerous to spend any time on the examination of your thoughts because they are likely to trigger a psychosis there is not much room for any thought transmutation. Seen from the 'thoughts-are-at-cause' perspective, what you think is crucial and only by changing your thoughts you are able to end your hallucinations and delusions. There is also an element of danger in this: if you just start examining your thoughts on your own, you might get overwhelmed, because it is very likely that these original thoughts were that hard to bear that you developed other thoughts to cover up the orignal cause. I think it is therefore wise to have a balanced friend or a professional who is willing to examine the thoughts that caused the brain dysfunction, in order to create new ones which can rectify the mess that was made by your original thoughts.
A decade ago I was very eager to try out this approach. I was however confronted with too many factors that made it virtually impossible to do it. Besides the power of the medical, psychiatric institutions, the pharmaceuticals I was convinced to stop working with people diagnosed as schizophrenic because I noticed that I had a hard time stimulating them for our real world.
It felt like trying to replace one set of debilitating thought forms for another set, the difference being that the latter set was regarded as the normal set of thoughts, namely to find a job, a partner, buy yourself a house, a car, have children, enjoy your vacation, participate in some sports or have a hobby and then finally retire and enjoy life even more until you die. I guess these are the dreams of our society.
What I have learned since then is that these dreams of our society have some resemblance to drugs as well. In a way we drug ourselves into investing most of our energy and attention to external sources, leaving little time for the exploration of our own thoughts and the accompanying worlds that we unknowingly create by thinking. If the current line of exploring on this site is correct it would exactly be this internal world of our thoughts that would define worlds far greater than our physical world.
Gibbon,
June 2006
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