Imagine that you are at a dinner party darling and over canapes and prosecco somebody looks you straight in the eyeballs and instead of the usual I am a CEO, media executive, lawyer, Ferrari Driving testosterone fuelled suit, the person calmly informs you that they are schizophrenic! You might get paranoid, you might look to see whether they are wielding a large knife especially if you had been reading that morning's comic 'Western Fail'. Wales Online, the National Newspaper of Wales. Here we are spoon-fed the sensationalised account of a 46 year old stepfather of a 35 year old Stepson. Without reading any further, I would have said 'Jealousy'. The Green Eyed Monster is involved here. There was only 11 years between them but they shared the same woman of who very little detail is mentioned apart from the eponymous 'Girlfriend'. Reading the article, it is important that you try and put on a Merthyr accent "it was like something from a horror film'. He was "off his face after his medication for paranoid schizophrenia was changed". Two psychiatric nurses stood with him in the dock as he gave evidence at Merthyr Tydfil Crown Court. Because of his mental illness, the jury took less than an hour to convict him.
Well thank you Western Mail for being judge, jury and executioner! Schizophrenic detained after frenzied attack!
Back to the dinner party and if you had any empathy and compassion, you would put your vol- au-vents and wine down and with their permission you should ask if you could give the other dinner guest a hug. That is what people need more than medication. They need love and understanding but they wont get it from a society that is built on competition. And this is what was going on in the household of 'the girlfriend'. These two men were vying for the love and affection of the woman. The 36 year old son said "there were no motives, there was no reason". Really, had you been goading your mother's partner for being a nut job or a crazy? This of course is pure speculation your honour.
Instead of two psychiatric nurses being in the dock with him, what about two psychiatrists? Still in a Merthyr accent now mind "Duw, you can't get them for love nor money round here, they wouldn't be prepared to live in the same accommodation as their patients and clients."
If you want to understand the condition called Schizophrenia and it's obvious that the medical profession want us to, then you have to read the Divided Self by R.D Laing. You have to research the Soteria Movement but you wont do that because you have mouths to feed and bills to pay. You my friend are normal but normal as Carl Jung said 'is the perfect aspiration of the unsuccessful'. We can never hope to understand 'Schizophrenia' (I hate even writing the word) while we continue to self destruct in a system like ours. We are the products of our environment. In a housing estate that encourages your poverty and worthlessness is it surprising that we hallucinate and hear voices and then perhaps we self medicate with a little bit of speed and some strong cannabis which can make us worse. We are then administered to by a Psychiatrist from a different class background! I don't think apart from R.D Laing that there were or are many working class shrinks!
While our newspapers do the work of Hollywood and turn ordinary folk into frenzied monsters what hope for the normal amongst us who despite our atheist and secular upbringings might just find the heart to mutter "there but for the grace of God go I" as we stumble back pissed from Wetherspoons.
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