Nice post but I think you have taken time to really emphasis on few points lemme ask do you still cosidered the termed schizophrenics to be gifted when they try to hurt themselves or people. And what about the people multiple personality disorders is it still wrong to lock them up when some of their manifested personalities hurt people , their loved ones ,when they become dangerous to even themselves
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[Hae-Joo] What is Schizophrenia? And why are we abusing our Shamans?
Hi @giftessiet
That's a very good question
Obviously I agree if somebody is a threat to other people or themselves some kind of restraint should be applied
But it's worth noting that in the US people with mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed by police, and 10 times more likely to be in a prison than in a hospital. Source
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In other words, especially with regards to schizophrenia, it's much more likely that schizophrenics are getting beaten up, harassed, tossed in jail, sexually abused etc, than they are doing all of those crimes to healthy people.
As in: A lot more likely
In reality, somebody with schizophrenia or ''multiple personality disorder'' is much less likely to go around committing crimes and doing damage than regular people, and when one studies why they do crimes, it's for the same reasons as healthy people.
So agree, as long as we can demonstrate that they are sane (i.e: they know the difference between right and wrong), then we can and should treat them like human beings and validate their gifts rather than locking them up, hurting them, abusing them, and the like...
If they really are a threat to themselves and others well, then we should probably find a solution...
But it's a shame that it has to even get to that point, especially when we know that they have a gift and have simply been so attacked and mind-fucked by our society that they are completely lost and afraid
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I'm not surprised about the fact that most violence committed by schizophrenics occurs in residential (meaning institutional) settings. Violence is often the result of feelings of great pent-up anger, anger that is considered unacceptable to express. Here's what Carl Jung said about anger: "Thank goodness for anger, which gives my soul a way to communicate that I am NOT an object."
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