thoughts about madness

[kossai]

just get to think again about ideas of what madness is .
in some ways is social term dress up as medical one ... and so can be true of words that follow , too , like schizophrenia .

one is mad if do not fit with how people expect others to think , feel , and behave . there is no need for proof that this is hurtful to person ... this is inherently bad thing that need to fix or else be rid .
and someone that is " mad " do not have right to stand up for self , to fear others' motivation and intent , often even just to talk about experiences and very self . to want these is then proof of madness ! normal people should not need to defend self , normal people will give into suspicion and allow force , normal people understand what is right and wrong to say . except of course for when not , but normal people get that freedom .

schizophrenia is real thing , yes , in that people with schizophrenia often have these symptoms here , and those hurt and negatively impact life . not always feel as if mentally and physically suffer , but some parts of life give more trouble than other people face .
unfortunately many people also just use schizophrenia in same way people in past use madness . this is something bad , need to fix by any means - even if person feel worse for that , even if person feel like lifeless husk , even if person still feel everything but now can not even start to scream for help . this is all improvement because less burden on others around .

kossai then can not blame people with schizophrenia for reject name , reject these treatments , reject idea that something is wrong . maybe for some life would improve to accept , but that little bit is just not worth cost of everything else . to lose right of speak up , of defend , of deny .

and of course . some people who do not care for what schizophrenia really means , just happy to see as " human rights removal button " , will call kossai as such too .
to do this means look at any " fringe " spiritual and religious experiences as delusion and hallucination , and blatantly ignore 3 other categories to symptoms , ignore distinction of positive and negative , ignore that key in diagnose with any mental illness is distress . no distress , no disorder !
but even if could prove everything kossai say wrong tomorrow and that therefore must have schizophrenia ? understand that would reject name even so , because to kossai , faerie experiences not something to be rid and fix . these experiences make life better and brighter , do things more consciously as result .

will forever stand by point that " sanity " is social category dress up as medical one . some people do benefit from these names , and from knowledge that this is brain thing . but no one benefit from horrible social class treatment , and often make problems worse .
not hard to see everyone as out to get when really people do glare and glance and question , people offer ways to change , ways to fix , places to … go .

not hard to think food and drink is poison when really deal with forced medication through food and drink .
not hard to end up with very low depressive crashes after episodes because others talk about how that was scary to watch , and offer no help or sympathy , not give time to talk about what experience - and during episode , people treat as animalistic criminal .
not hard to feel isolate and shut self away on purpose because no one will even try to find ways communicate when words feel incoherent , turn away when talk about good or beautiful parts in experiences , remind of truth in sick disease .