Disruptive Compassion and Over Concern - Day 27 of "100 Symptoms"
Channel: nednednerB the Schizophrenic
Date: 23/04/2019

Obvious symptoms aside, what is unique about schizophrenics?
Today I talk about what compassion and concern look like.

I include it as a part of describing schizophrenia because it was imprinted when I first went to the hospital in early 2000s and a nurse suggested that many teen males she had known made her feel schizophrenia was "a disease based in compassion." She shared her observation that many young schizophrenics seems to be carrying a large burden of compassion and concern about changing the world, such as care about the environment, diversity, and the peace of communities and organisms.

On the recent pass by Earth Day, it is definite that compassion in the land is needed and some individuals are profiting selfishly by controlling large groups, and many people don't realize how important it is that we take a proactive response to the threat of climate disorder. That said, most people don't realize-- they need information, they need help, nearly all of us need to grow our compassion and knowledge! 

Some of us are overburdened with the existence of compassion and a perceived lack of ability to act on it. People experiencing psychosis often feel trapped in over concern. I remember wanting to scream. I once did walk down the middle of the street with a sign asking for $15 an hour minimum wage. It was a four lane road and I did this in the middle of morning rush hour.

I was thinking primarily of all people in similar situations to myself: I was dealing with disability and uninspiring employment prospects, which were regulated within a toxic culture with disturbed history and traditions. I felt at a high level, healing all of civilization was my central concern and target. Somehow being a "mad man" walking in the middle of traffic scaring "normal people" turned out to be how I expressed my concern. That's why I call it over concern.

I definitely believe that compassion and concern are a good thing to encourage! But I encourage you to be gentle and talk openly to others, which will usually verify that many of your friends and acquaintances feel similarly to you already. They also wish for more compassion in the land, or at least would agree given the choice of yes or no that they would just opt for peace rather than more terror.

I think that's an important realization for someone experiencing the isolation, the preoccupation, and the mania of psychotic episodes. Hopefully we can encourage calmness and reactivity to messages from the society around us. Many schizophrenics lose touch and behave "strangely" which much of the stereotypes emphasize, but it is true that if you don't talk about compassion and expected behaviours as a group, both sides of the ecological conversation will be stunted and less aware.

We'll be less mutually aware, of both the hope and the suffering in the world and self. Opening up about our compassion, we will probably first increase the hope and then reduce the suffering, and not vice versa. Isolation and a lack of social support, that will reduce hope and increase suffering. We can avoid some of that working together!

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This has been nednednerB the Schizophrenic, 
with Day 27 of "100 Symptoms".

I have schizophrenia every day. Even though I was diagnosed in early 2000s, I experience and manage symptoms daily. So here are "100 Symptoms!"

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