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Originally Posted by nezmot
Paranoid schizophrenics can take control over their hallucinations and delusions, the same way a bipolar person can take control over their own behaviour. It's a matter of self awareness and understanding. A therapist can help a person reach that level of understanding - but all it takes is someone with the ability to look deeply and truthfully into themselves - and accept whatever it is they come to find there.
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It sounds like you are trying to offer a sincere and honest endorsement for self-responsibility, and I agree with the spirit of this message. However, when it comes to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia being controlled with insight and acceptance, you are completely misinformed. Your statements on this issue are factually incorrect.
Insight, honesty, and taking responsibility for what one *can* control is a significant part of combating these disorders, but they are not effective treatments for psychosis or mania. Even the brilliant Harry Stack Sullivan, using his genius skills at psychotherapy, had very modest success using intensive, 6-8 hours per day, "talk therapy" in simply reducing the number and intensity of delusions experienced by schizophrenic patients under his care. These (bipolar mania and psychosis) are biological disorders with strong genetic underpinnings, and you can no more "talk" or "will" them away than you could cancer. This is not a matter of coddling or buying into their "victimhood." It is a simple matter of scientific fact.