Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
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Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Despair often breeds disease.
Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.
I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices.
Psychoanalysis wants to heal with words and speaking, but sometimes with speaking, you realize nothing.
Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.
Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better be known by their symptoms and the individualized sufferings of patients than by assigned names.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
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