Schizophrenia, in principle, is an extension of your personality. It can be trained.

[Gottservant]

Hi there,

So just a little insight I have managed to get, after all my years (17 years) of schizophrenia: Schizophrenia is in principle, an extension of our personality. It can be trained, and it can be mastered. By trained, I mean we can practice meditation to the point that our cortisol output is very low, and does not cause us anxiety. By mastered, I mean we can develop steps of self-control psychologically and otherwise, that help us interact with the world and ourselves, on the basis of our schizophrenia (or in principle, other mental health condition).

The average meditation length I am able to sustain on medication, is about 40 minutes. This includes build up, focus, balance and retention. I couldn't have coped with my mental health condition for even a month, if I did not at some point, do some meditation. The point is, that it is something that has give and take and can show us a side of ourselves, we did not know we had.

Perhaps in time, I will be able to add to this; suffice it to say "I wish I was more of a master of my mental health condition, that I have been up to now (and if I have to train harder: I will!)

For all of you struggling to see how your mental health condition is connected with your personality - consider beginning to meditate on specifically about your personality changed, when you started to accept that you had that condition (and for how long you had accepted it - to establish whether you started to become biased, to some extent, if you did).

I love that I get to share a mental health condition with you guys - I hope things improve for almost all of us (the Devil has to wait, because he doubts even he can recover!).

 

[ImAllLikeOkWaitWat]

What type of meditation do you do?

 

[Gottservant]

What type of meditation would help your personality?

I think just being at peace with your personality would be enough.

If you wanted a difficult meditation: you could try visualizing dying, with your personality as it was now.

Meditation is more beneficial when you do it regularly (once you do that, it is easier to tell what sort of meditation you should do).

 

[yeshuaslavejeff]

What type of meditation would help your personality?

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