Thank you for writing an articulate article on the demeaning approach that psychiatrists have imposed on our lives.  I understand fully what you have said and I am that much more wise on the issue.  Reincarnation and alien abductions in the U.S.A. are delusions according to mainstream psychiatry, but if you look in the liabrary youll find these experiences in the non fiction spots.  The united states constitution says we have the right to believe in what we want and yet we are persecuted for believing in these things because the powers that be  won't allow it. Schizophrenics hear voices and I have often said that we are more in touch with the spirit world. I myself have heard the voice of god and he/she said that Jesus would be returning soon.  That wasn't the entire message however.  And for some odd reason I pursue my gut instincts. If I had been born muslim would I have heard the voice of alah?  Also, Schizophrenia is interesting.  If you had 2.2million people affected by this doesn't it tell you just how common it is . I've believed aliens have had something to do with it. Mind control perhaps or testing people on a new device that inhances telepathy.  Parapsychology ackowledges these things but psychology has nothing to do with them.  And it seems that psycholgogists and psychiatrists are in control of everything while parapsychologists have no control whatsoever.  The unexplained is just that. I think we should organize a group together to fight for the prophesy of shizophrenics,  the beliefs of people who believe they are famous people reincarnated, and those who have made contact with aliens. Do I sound more schizophrenic yet.  Maybe its because they get you so brainwashed into making you believe that the diagnosis is permanent and not a journey of the mind that you actually start to feel inferior.   They truly are the mind police and its time they met their match.  We can not give to their demands.  I want peace and they want peace but the fact of the matter is is that we disagree and so their is conflict. How to resolve it peacefully is through the light that god has shed on the universe.  What I mean is that the bible is an ancient artifact but nothing is more holy than the body or temple.  We can tear down their buildings and build them in three days with the prophesy of schizophrenics.  Not everyone will agree, they never do but we can start a spiritual revolution that people will have to listen to us.  WE THE PEOPLE will rise out of the dust to secure a place on earth that is beyond our imagination or wildest dreams where everything is civil where we work for one common goal and that is satisfaction that psychiatrists no longer have control over our lives. That we can prove to them that we can live responsibly, civil, just and make contributions to society beyond our spiritual insights.  Anyway, I'm ranting and my time is almost up here so I say goodbye that much wiser and inpired to conquer.  Peace Brother.

My response ?? ...

Yes ... that's why I do write as MUCH as I do ... we are schizophrenics ... we have been to places (both glorious
& otherwise) that any one who has not visited such places is incapable of even beginning to imagine what they truly
are like ... (both glorious & otherwise) ...

That had me taking yet another look at this page as well as this one ...

I'd frogotten about many, many of the linx in those collections ...

... one can hardly wait for the days when schizophrenia is seen (& treated) in a very different light ... as a process
rather than an 'illness' ... patience ... man ...

One of the preceding paragraphs reminds me of the last bit of dialogue in 'Gulliver's Travels' ... :)

And if that aint MORE than enuf links to be going on with ... try this little page ... :)

... and I'll let you go now, with a cartoon ...

For more of Mr Leunig's stuff ... why not click here ...