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I am supposed to spend several hours a week searching the net for information and sites on schizophrenia, something you may have noticed I rarely did. I find it takes several hours just to write the articles without the searching. The truth is that I can't read very much. I read as little as I can get away with actually. Reading is one of the things I lost to schizophrenia. It started in undergraduate university and was the main reason I was kicked out of graduate school. I have read only a handful of books in the last ten years and only one or two from cover to cover. Even when I do find a new site on schizophrenia, I rarely have the ability to read very much of it. You might say I judge a lot of books by their cover. This week I thought I would review a number of sites I've recently discovered or rediscovered, and keep my editors happy.
The first is for those who don't believe that schizophrenia really exists. It is a site by someone with schizophrenia who is trying to help other people with schizophrenia disable the radio transmitter in their brain that broadcasts their thoughts. He recommends an Electromagnetic Pulse device to fry those transistors, and provides links to plans to build your own. http://www.angelfire.com/tv/emp/ His hope in the future is that we may someday "kill the part of the brain that makes schizophrenics broadcast their thoughts." That is a direct quote. This is a pretty rare site actually, because psychosis is usually so disabling and disorganizing people rarely have the ability to create a web site. The site also illustrates how real delusions are to the person experiencing them. The problem is not with his reality construction, the problem is with everybody else's. There haven't been a lot of new sites on schizophrenia in the years that I've been on the internet. One that caught my attention the other day is by a company that calls themselves Integrated Behavioural Health. http://www.ibhcorp.com/test/schizophreni... I haven't read the whole page but my impression is that it would be a very good introduction to the subject of schizophrenia. The internet is all things to all people but there isn't very much on the internet for people with a diagnosis of Schizoaffective disorder. Schizoaffective disorder falls somewhere on a continuum between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and it's a fairly common diagnosis, but you never see very much about it. I discovered this New York Presbyterian Hospital fact sheet on it recently http://www.noah-health.org/english/illne... Also recently discovered was the story of Margaret Ray who stalked David Letterman. http://www.msnbc.com/news/431524.asp?cp1... She was ridiculed by a public that never took the time to understand her illness, schizophrenia. I also noticed a links page at a Geocities site http://www.geocities.com/cazie/index56.h... which is obviously a labour of love for someone. I rarely follow a link to Geocities but this one is worth the visit. Go To Page: 1 2
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