1% is the percentage of the French population with the disease.
past few months, various facts we have, somehow, agreed. To address this disease, terrible. With the idea for us to scan a number of misconceptions. Not all schizophrenics are not dangerous, it's actually a very small proportion. We shot in a service called "open" composed of 13 patients, "my patients" told us as a night nurse. The idea of "Border Setting" is to be a benevolent and humanistic disease. 10 days filming a third outside the service. The doc 'shares the life of these patients and especially the lives of Peter, Joel, Caroline and a few others. Now the blog has an e-mail address where we welcome your thoughts, comments and questions on this subject. Feel free to send us an email if you want to join our mailing list or participate in the initial projections: borcadre-doc@hotmail.fr
Professor Naudin is a psychiatrist, he heads the unity of APHM Vega (hospitals of Marseilles) and his team We have fully opened their doors. We are grateful for their confidence. Jean Naudin wanted to write these few lines.
Human societies need standards and diversity, which is perpetual source of conflict and creation of wealth and disease. Every man in his own way embodies this general theory by trying to be like the others (in the standard) and yet different (being yourself). The excess of standard locks. Diversity is never in excess, but it makes the necessary sick as a possible form of organization. As with all our major diseases, the invention of schizophrenia in the late nineteenth century (Kraepelin first, followed by Bleuler in the early twentieth) should also be included in the aftermath of the works of Linnaeus (one class diseases are classified as cash) and Darwin (diseases find their ultimate meaning in the struggle for life).
Given these general considerations, schizophrenia Cancer is the disease which surprised us as we doctors and patients. Unlike cancer, which sometimes hides a long time but always end up seeing each other, schizophrenia does not show. Neither the naked eye, or the scanner. That makes her a strange disease.
We do not yet know the causes, what excites the researchers of all stripes.
The set is a matter for specialists. There were quarrels school, doubts remain: do we know if it even exists? Psychiatrists are unanimous: yes! It exists. But patients are less so: schizophrenia may exist, but not for me. Psychiatrists call this reluctance to be labeled denial but this is often the fear of stigma, fear of the gaze of others, perception of self-preserved, which shows that much of the person is still alive and defending freedom.
Defend against what?
disease? Other? Lazy? The pressure of the surrounding world?
Everyone - patients, physicians, family - feel good that there are symptoms that bother, things that happen to us or between us and which are regarded as obstacles to free flow of life. Call it what you want, everything will depend on outward signs (listlessness, hallucinations, bizarre), but Ey was right to say: mental illnesses are diseases of freedom.
Mental illnesses affect the mind, cognition, perception, the neurotransmitters, the brain inevitably, but - said Erwin Straus - this is not the brain that thinks, is the man!
The pathophysiology of schizophrenia involves how we continually build our experience by following a thread, sometimes thick, sometimes thin, which gathers. This is how our brain enables us to confront our thoughts to other and shape on the basis of meeting the real world. This is also how we can trust our emotions. Our emotions are markers of the atmosphere, markers of the state of the world. Our movements, our intentions, our perceptions, our emotions, our projects, our submission must be coordinated, integrated experience this: it must take place without us even thinking about it. Neuroscientists and psychopathologists agree today on the idea that schizophrenia is a disease that affects the strength of passive integration. Hence its clinical polymorphism. There is not just schizophrenia but lots of varieties clinics, a spectrum that ranges from schizotypal personality said, without symptoms (one man, a woman can say no more than he (she) is a weird), forms the most acute and delusional.
I personally hope that this disease may one day débaptisée taking into account the current scientific data, as has been done in Japan. The Japanese, quite officially (There is a note from the Ministry of Health), now called schizophrenia "neurocognitive impairment and emotional integration." Other psychiatrists and associations of users want this change the world. The word "schizophrenia" is scary, it evokes the criminal lunatic, violence, failure, shame, public opinion on this subject has been won by the conformism safe, it should be abandoned. And find a name that satisfies all of us, psychiatrists and users. The word "impaired neurocognitive and emotional integration is much more consensual. It has the advantage of being only descriptive.
An integration neurocognitive disorder that affects one place in greater insecurity. Difficult to live as self-assured when you doubt the value or stability of the simplest things. Both physical and moral (difficult to distinguish the two), this insecurity makes people's lives that chasm can not be more precarious. More often than other, more insistent, they lose the evidence of things. They lose what in everyday life makes it natural or just practice. Sometimes everything starts to make sense (this is the basis of delusion). Sometimes, and just as often, nothing really has (that is the foundation of the perplexity which defines the "negative" forms of the disease).
basal This insecurity, existential reflects two things:
1) is why it is more difficult to work when you're schizophrenic
2) c ' is why when they look back all schizophrenics have a point common: fear.
In their lives, so enduring, so brave they were, they were afraid and it has transformed their worldview.
The disease may take the form of terrifying hallucinatory voices, orders came from nowhere, ridicule, or more simply, a great fatigue, desperation, a aquoibonisme poor, smart or imbued itself. Often it is simply a commitment that's scary. We then see trays of life more or less tall, more or less low, more or less long, during which it nothing happens, or not much. The person trying to recuperate.
The disease also makes it more vulnerable. These are not people with schizophrenia are dangerous, but normal people. We must remember: this is not the schizophrenic who beat their wives or their children in the privacy of the cottages or extort money in the street weaker. The violence there, everyday violence, they suffer like us.
The classic descriptions of the lives of schizophrenia made by the psychiatrists were often catastrophic. It describes the chronic disease, relapse-free treatment as inevitable facts. They were reinforced by descriptions catastrophic. Yet schizophrenia, we have known since Kraepelin, known forms of spontaneous healing. We know today that two schizophrenic after twenty years of evolution of the disease no longer any sign. As in all chronic diseases, the important thing is to live and endure. The important thing to achieve to make choices, in spite of the disease, consistent with what is believed to be yourself. As in all diseases, the important thing is to take care themselves and refuse to be time that will prevent us from being or becoming.
should be on this path able to avoid (that is to say to a doctor prevent) myocardial infarction (common), suicide (who goes with awareness), loneliness (organized cons), pressure ( fight for the standard, but not excessively).
Schizophrenia and chronicity are not intended inevitable. Treated early, spotted early, understood as a treatable disease, a disorder of the integration will stabilize or cure without sequelae or sustainable social consequence. It must be said everywhere: in newspapers, on TV, on the net, in families, in high school. Schizophrenia, it is treatable, we heal.
I hope this documentary, manufacturing which we all enjoyed it, show that life ends up winning. Living with schizophrenia, it is possible. Live well even. More or less normally, as we all do, meet or eccentric, rebellious or obedient, warriors and pacifists.
This documentary is less focused on schizophrenia as the possibility of recovery. You can listen to Larry Davidson, an American specialist of the issue, as talk of a recovery reality. You can see Peter, Joel, Caroline, and others, live their lives as they wish, to speak freely about their illness. You meet their family, their friends, shrinks. We see the shrinks at work, younger, older, hospital or outside. And how is built the singularity of the psychiatric clinic. We see how users are also organized without the shrinks and how it is possible, and not so bad. The least important is to control the disease and understand how one can find in all that makes our individual existence, the joy of living. The important thing is to stay, or to discover oneself.
Thank Meney Lawrence, Charles VOISSIER, Yann Lenhof, Marie-Noëlle GRIMALDI CHAURAND and Benoit have been able to mingle with us without resistance. Maxence ARM thank you to Julie and the team MARCIANO VEGA for their hospitality, thank you to Larry Davidson, Michael Schwartz and Osborne Wiggins for showing us the path.
