Schizophrenia and neurodiversity

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The term ‘schizophrenia’ stems from the from Greek words skhizein, which means ‘to split’, and phrēn, meaning ‘mind’. The initial thought was that the mind splits in some sense: not, as is sometimes thought, into multiple personalities; but rather into a single fragmented and alienated personality, usually beginning in late adolescence or early adulthood. Beyond this, the condition is most centrally characterised largely in light of psychosis, hearing voices, paranoia, a general sense of apathy, and flat or fluctuating moods and emotions.

In general, these traits are almost universally though to be inherently harmful deviations from the norm, and together they are taken to somehow destroy or at least radically damage the previously existing person. Given this, schizophrenia (and related ‘schizophrenic spectrum’ conditions such as schizoaffective disorder) are taken within both institutional psychiatry, and society more broadly, to be something terrible – tragic medical diseases to be combated with pharmaceutical drugs, institutionalization, and perhaps, one day, genetic engineering.

But the rise of the neurodiversity movement, which until now has focused mostly on the autism spectrum and other cognitive disabilities, gives reason to challenge this view of the schizophrenic spectrum. What neurodiversity movement proponents claim is that, even though the underlying neuro-cognitive differences captured by psychiatric labels indicate meaningful ways of being, the harm associated with these conditions is caused by society and ideology rather than due to anything like innate medical pathology. In light of this, neurodiversity movement proponents argue that what they call ‘neurominorities’ – autism, dyslexia, and so on – are natural and legitimate, albeit oppressed or excluded, ways of being in the world.

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I wonder if a schism is in fact a prism of doubt in your mind, which lie the deeper root factors of ones life.
There are different prisms of brain matter and spectrums, with usually a solid diagnosis and a co-morbid one.
If you ponder the meaning of life for too long, then you've created doubt, that in turn gives way to suspicion, and confusion and incredible anxiety. There are also many meanings, those which are rigid, others which are self indorsed.
An authoritian manner, figuritively speaking, chimes low of expectation from someone who likes to cast unreasonable doubt and fear onto others. Ringleading and group tactics are cosmetic factors of an underlying problem, that nobody wants to address until, the person gets ridiculed and its too late to fight back.
Self counselling or thought processing to act as someone with neurodiverse factors, are as bewildering as maintaining a fluent conversation in caucasion speak, or other enabling factors of irregular social mobility within a tightening structure.