Insights into Schizophrenia
In treating Schizophrenia, the two key treatments are taking medicine and lowering stress.
You can actually undo the effects of the medicine by being under too much stress.
The biggest thing that causes people stress is often other people.
With Schizophrenia, this stress is magnified.
But Schizophrenia is still a lonely disease and you still want human contact.
One of my strategies is to avoid conflict whenever possible.
Keep this in mind when using this list to reduce your stress.
Using This List to Lower Stress
These are not a list of things to do but attributes to strive towards.
They are hard to do and the philosophy does not tell you how.
I would say most are about humility, calmness, and acceptance of limitations.
Nothing really to “do”. Kind of like a “boring” life.
Don't think. Just do. There is no correct way.
The point of this is to be less stressed not more. Forget trying to do it.
It is not about adding things to do but removing them from your life.
Skepticism
Realize we are all irrational and there are good things about that
Question reality or have self doubt, ask for help and have a willingness to admit mistakes
See death as the defining part of life and not fearing death
Avoiding Pain
Be useless or minimize risk by not being too important or an easy target
Reject the pursuit of money or fame as a way to avoid pain
Eliminate all forms of suffering in your life and others
Do not accept pain as inevitable
Freedom
Be spontaneous in planning things to do to lower stress
Be creative in solving life problems
Take responsibility with your free choices
Internal Transformation
Find meaning in life through internal struggle and see life as primarily spiritual
Educate yourself as a way of personal growth by reading and learning from other’s experiences
Self-reflect to avoid conflict
Be honest with God as a starting point for your relationship with Him
Self Control
Understand what you can change and what you cannot change
Be a person of peace within and without
Learn how to have better manners
Self mastery is enlightenment