Global Families for Dialogic Approaches GFDA

 I live in a house together with other people who struggle with some diagnose. We are nine people here. This is very different from a hospital, mainly because we are free to get out to the streets whenever we want. And the nursery treat me as an adult, as a ctitizen like any other. In hospitals, from my experience, sometimes nurses even engage in some bullying activities. Such as saying there are people who need to work hard to survive, and as you don´t, you are priveleged, and therefore not entitled to complain about whatever.  I think the main problem of schizophrenia is pessimism. There´s a spirit that enters our mind, and says there that everything will always go wrong. If you are locked, that´s fertile environment for this spirit to thrive. But here, I can develop life projects, as for example there´s a theatre play I wrote and perform, and folks here are helping me find a theatre to present it. Another important difference are the other patients. Part of the suffering of...

 So much is talked about relationshios nowadays, but one is missing. That with time. In my second internation I was subject to high doses of haldol. The side effects and the main effects are both very unpleasant. What leaves you just one option:to wait. But time doesn´t pass. Five minutes are like an hour. There might be some activities to do in the hospital, and they help a little, but only a little. I would do always the same painting. An imitation of the arab alphabet, which was easy and produced some aesthetics. Let´s say ten minutes were like an hour during the activitie. It is sad. But even sadder. Because there have been almost thirty years from this internation, and I still feel sometimes like time doesn´t pass. When I brush my teeth, usually I keep an eye on the whatch. I can not stop before two minutes. If I do that, my father will die. It is odd, I know. It is often difficult to wait for the bus in the bus stop. To alleviate, sometimes I get out of home an hour earlier t...