Symptoms = Reactions to Problems in life???

Symptoms in Schizophrenia are the body’s ways of talking to you. Symptoms only tell you that something is wrong with your life and that needs to be set right. Symptoms and chronic deterioration are a reaction to you being devalued by other people and feeling insecure. You then tend to feel your life has no core because of the tragic events that have occurred in life and the stress and pressure you were made to endure even when you knew there was a way out and people did not honor your insights and inner voice. Symptoms mean nothing. Don’t get overly scared by them. If you were to be part of a cause larger than yourself – a dynamic and rigorous activity schedule, the symptoms would vanish in no time because you are not focusing on your illness then, but focusing on solutions, following your passion, and engaging your mind in constructive activities. College life made my symptoms vanish and I never heard voices after the first week of enrolling in college after I was locked up at home for a whole year by my ignorant mother!!! Go get your hands muddy and involve yourself in a cause larger than yourself if you want to get rid of symptoms!!! If you stay home and focus on the symptoms all the time and try making them go away, they simply won’t!!!

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