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1. What is schizophrenia? 2. Do you believes individuals with…
1. What is schizophrenia?
2. Do you believes individuals with schizophrenia should be forced to take medication?
Please read the following interview:
Interview with
Dr John Nash On hearing voices……………
Initially I did not hear any voices. Some years went by before I heard voices and — I became first disturbed in 1959, and I didn’t hear voices until the summer of 1964 I think, but then after that, I heard voices, and then I began arguing with the concept of the voices.
And ultimately I began rejecting them and deciding not to listen, and, of course, my son has been hearing voices, and if he can progress to the state of rejecting them, he can maybe come o ut of his mental illness.
The consequence of rejecting the voices is ultimately not hearing the voices. You’re really talking to yourself is what the voices are, but it’s also parallel to a dream. In a dream it’s typical not to be rational.
I had some philosophical ideas that were involved. I found myself thinking in political terms, but then I found myself able to criticize this thinking — that it wasn’t very valuable to think in political terms. Even now, I sometimes have a new realization that it can be not so good to think in political terms about some of the current issues. One can leave that to others.
So in rejecting some of the political ideas, that had a relation to the voices, so I could think of a voice maybe as presenting what was analogous to a political argument, and then I could say, I don’t want to listen to that.
On delusional thinking………….
In madness, I thought I had a very important role, and, of course, that includes the messenger-type function. That is a Muslim concept particularly with Muhammad. He’s the messenger of Allah. That’s, I think, a standard phrase. So I saw myself as being a messenger or having a special function. I saw it in terms of there being supporters, but also of opponents, and so I would think that if I was put in the hospital, it wo uld be a coup d’etat by the opponents.
I had this feeling of persecution. I had the idea that some of the people — I think Eisenhower was still president then — and the Pope and the powers that be might be unsympathetic to me. I envisioned a hidden world where the Communists and non-Communists were into this thing — they were sort of schemers.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nash/sfeature/sf_nash.html
PSYCHOLOGY IN ACTION: Chapter 11
At a very early time I got the idea that I would receive a message somehow. Later on I felt that I might get a divine revelation by seeing a certain number that would appear. A great coincidence could be interpreted as a message from heaven.
On medication…………..
On a short-term basis I would be taking the drugs and I would reach a level of acceptance. But not just because of the drugs. And I would then come out of the hospital and I would have a job and I would do some work. And at that time they didn’t have the same drugs that they have now.
The drugs I think can be overrated. All of the drugs now continue to have some bad side effects.
There would be times in between when I would stop taking drugs and I would not immediately go under any regimen. So I don’t know. I am lucky to have come out of mental illness at all, but certainly in the later years I had no drugs.
I didn’t have the worst side effects, some of the long-term side effects. Nowadays they have drugs that are considered better. But one of the angles is it’s considered more or less acceptable if a drug can be used for schizophrenia. But the people get very sleepy and they gain a lot of weight. But this is considered acceptable. But it’s not so good if you gain a lot of weight over a long time period. Then there are many health effects. So you can say that this person’s life is really going to be shortened because of all the cardiac, cardiovascular consequences of being overweight.
3. Reference the interview with Dr. John Nash help make your point.
