Schizophrenia Can Be Solved By Acts Of Kindness

During the years with depression i read a lot of psyciatric terminology and how to treat people with mental illness. I read all i could find and also on the net from different countries and research materials. The one thing i realised is left out in the treatment a lot is the patients own unique way of living and the life history to the person suffering. I got ill the first time in 2002 and was hospitalisised for three weeks. I only lacked sleep and fought for a better health care system managing to give people the right targetted treatment. And often it is the whole body needing to be treated not only the symptoms with medications. I have never taken a high blood pressure as a nurse, even if the patient was diagnosed with high bloodpressure. It was that i had the ability to calm the patients down.
Psycotic patients tends to get out of psycosis when they are interacting social with me. They even dare to tell what voices say, and i keep it to myself and tell them to not bother with voices but needs to have fun, be social and get theire life back. The main issue is to never lose theire dreams. A psycotic person can be loocked on as a person with high bloodpressure. The sympthoms are not there all the time. Sometimes the patient is clear, adekvat and is quite normal. In times like these the nurses has to get into the situation and tell the patient : " Hey, now you are normal and is okay. " The silence in an mental institution can be devastating, because in the real life people speak and interact a lot. I discovered this hospitalisation that some patients wanted to be together with me when they felt anxiety. Schizophrenia can give a lot of anxiety. And it needs to be treated, but not always with medication but with kind, helping, loving persons that dares to go into the things the patients believe in and turn the beliefes back to the common reality. It is to help people be humans again. Schizophrenia is treatable.
I did not get a diagnoze until 2007. Then they took away the work theraphy in the hospital and the physical theraphy. I painted a lot and exercised a lot and all they had to treat me with was to loock me up inside a mental institution for 4 months. I did not hear voices, but got the diagnose Shizoaffective disorder, but my main doctor gave me the diagnose bipolar disorder. It has been a travell in the psyciatric treatment and i see that they lack kindness. It is believed that they think only medications will help. But the only true thing helping is kindness and people giving a base oriented defense believe back to the  patient. It is a important thing that the ones giving base orienting is people that are believable. If the nurse is one person with one patient and then another one with another patient there is mess in the system. Because the people working in psyciatric needs to be whole persons with a lot of capacity to think about how we are going to treat this patient the best. It is hope. The last unit i was to treated me kind and took me outside, but the main part of the job i have done for myself. By reading, painting, writing and been together with my son. Beeing together with my son is the most positive thing i do in the world. I always get in a good mood and get a good laugh. I love him with all my heart and he is the reason i live today.
In Norway 423 people are dead while they was in the psyciatric system at hospitals since 2010. It is to many and i believe everyone could have been saved. There needs to be developed more skills to people working in the psyciatric units. They have to have a first aid kit that is theire presence and theire way of speaking. Caring acts can be remembered for a lifetime. To be put in a mental institution can be shameful and people think theire life is ruined. They have to be met with the posture : " Hey, we are a team, together we work this out. " It is possible to heal, and it is possible to live a good life with mental illness given the right education to the patients. I have seen so much bad things happening that i could not believe it. The patient is not theire disease. It is the most important thing to remember.
During the years and because of my education i realised that i know just as much about schizophrenia as psyciatric doctors. They have not told me anything new. And be patient with the doctor because they do not always get the right picture of you as a patient because they get reports from nurses and assistants. So a good advice for a patient is to write a diary every day. Remeber that you are in control of youre life to do happy things and reflect over what is good for you doing and ask of doing them. A kind institution let you do youre favourite things to do and be together with the people you love.
A first aid kit to schizophrenia is enough sleep and a natural diet. I call it a natural diet because not all diets are good for the body. Many patients gain weight because of medication and a natural diet make you go down in weight. I have developed my own natural diet. And will write more about that. I have gone down 17 kilos since april. And is still going down. I was 97 kilos and is now 80 kilos. I am going down to 62 kilos. That is me when i am in full remission. That means to change back to the person you was before you got ill. Natural diet is to go after youre needs. And not only food. It is to do things that make you feel good, refreshed and well. I will write more about this later on. Just to say as something very positive. On this diet it is allowed to eat snack and have really good food. It is to be enjoyed. It takes a bit longer time dieting down, but the result is better because you feel good in youre mind.
Dont be youre diagnosis. Be youreself. And that is a kind loving person. Reveal youre inner self. The one you really want to be. And work for that goal. To be left in a diagnosis and told : " This is the way you are. " ruins peoples lives. Diagnosis is just a criteria to give treatment and medication that often is wrong. It can be hard to give medication to people suffering from Schizophrenia. Give them love. Give them trust. And find someone who really sees this person and see the diagnosis go away. It can take time in the start, but to reinforce positivity and a healthy atmosphear is the one thing making the patient heal.
The unit i was to now last has a very good employe climate. They have fun at work and it reflects over on us patients. Christmas eve one person working on the unit stayed home for two days on his private without sallary making christmas dinner for us. And i got the best christmas dinner i have ever tasted. I was so thankfull to this person that i realised that this was good people wanting the best for the patients. I relaxed. And ate a lot :-) Thank you to that person :-)
There is so much work to do in the psyciatric workfield. Diagnosis is not meant to harm you. It is a work tool for the doctors, nurses and the public system. Dont be afraid of a diagnosis. People are kinder than you think around the world. But dare to work with youreself and do what you love and dont go after thoughts and believes that dont exist in the common reality. To read a mind is not possible. And people stealing youre thoughts is not possible either. There are more i can say to this but i havent had this symptoms myself. But got to know people suffering a lot and beeing lonely because of theire symptoms. Try to take a time out everyday to focus on youre lifeplan. If you dont have one plan for youre life, make one and try to work with it together with health care people.

Remember that youre weakest part can be youre greatest strenght in the future. Dare to seek help if you need help. But remember that you are in control. You have the right to be you :-) I put in the video of Audioslave - " Be Youreself. " I like that a lot. And remember that nobody is perfect and that everybody in the entire world have problems, small or big ones. Remember to have fun. And my best advice : " Exercise. "
Find away for youreself and remember that you are the first one in the world beeing you :-) There is only one of you - so love youreself !!! :-)
" Be the one true person you are suppoused to be - and that is you " :-)