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Outdated Notions about Schizophrenia [PsychCentral.com]

 

Every parent’s worst nightmare. These are the words one mother used in a magazine article to describe her child having schizophrenia. When hearing her daughter’s diagnosis, another mother blurted out that she’d wished she had leukemia or some other disease instead. Even after the doctor told her that schizophrenia is much more treatable than leukemia, she said she’d still prefer leukemia. *

We see schizophrenia as a devastating diagnosis. We assume that our loved ones are doomed to a horrible life. This is something Psych Central blogger Rebecca Chamaa, who has schizophrenia, hears often. “People say it’s the worst thing that could happen to you. To hear that all the time and to be put in that category all the time, it’s a terrible thing to do to people.”

Chamaa pens the insightful blog Life with Schizophrenia. “I like to write so that people know I am an average woman, who is married, finished college and had a successful career as a social worker,” she says on her about page.



[For more of this story, written by Margarita Tartakovsky, go to http://psychcentral.com/blog/a...about-schizophrenia/]

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