From Mad in the UK: I have a friend who once said – having met him in a mental health unit – that everyone there had “schizophrenia” but he didn’t. He was the first person I talked to in the unit, we’d both used drugs, and he went to the same school as my cousins. We became lifelong friends, 24 years.
My view was that everyone there had got into spiritual difficulties and none were “schizophrenic” and I had escaped the imposed psychic dictatorship of my parents even if the place was rock bottom. I should explain some more: before this time, I had had to hide the voices from my parents. Of course they saw through this, and could tell I had been in a “trance”, which they discouraged. To them channelling the voices was “bad.” In my eyes I thought I would now be free to live with my voices and I was willing to make do in some crap flat somewhere. Unfortunately, I didn’t, instead they put me on meds and so I concentrated on friendships and spirituality.
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