Schizophrenia Help Online

Welcome to this website. It has been created in order to provide people confronted with schizophrenia with online help. This includes people undergoing a schizophrenic experience themselves or their family members, spouses or friends.

I myself have undergone the experience of schizophrenia for eight years. I have been diagnosed an affective paranoid schizophrenic. I have been in and out of mental institutions six times. The longest internment in a mental hospital has been for nine months. I was confined to a psychiatric hospital by a court order. I currently live a life free of psychoses, I am on anti-psychotic medication. But the medication is not all that explains my recovery. A loving family, friends and a wide network of support has helped me in regaining a full life.

I am not a doctor, therapist or coach. The only credentials I have for helping others are that I have undergone a long schizophrenic experience myself. I know the depth of this profound mental, psychic and soul transformation first hand. Many self-help groups, although there are very good ones, leave me baffled, because they tend to fail to acknowledge the rich inner depth of the schizophrenic experience. Without the knowledge and insight into the depth of this phenomenon I believe an encounter with this state of being will fall short of the richness it has to offer.

I am not trying to romanticize schizophrenia. It is also a very painful experience. However, the psyche is a profound world with so much cognition and understanding of the world and the cosmos that my focus on schizophrenia is precisely the richness of this inner life. The focus of this website then and the help which I can offer is not of a medical nature. What I can do is offer insights into the meaning and emotions involved in the experience of schizophrenia for “patients”, family, spouses and friends. I can help towards a better understanding of this profound life-changing process.

Understanding schizophrenia is a labor of love. It is an opening up to the unconscious, to the world of myth, signification, vision, self-growth and individuation. It is an encounter with the self, the entire world, the universe and the cosmos. For all involved, understanding, time, patience and love are of the essence. The cold clinical diagnose of traditional medical science does little in this direction. It does not open up the world of this powerful process of the psyche which is trying to communicate. Madness has a logic and it has reason. I just heard an artist suffering from schizophrenia say the other day on a TV Radio Show on Mental illness, that Van-Gogh was one of the sanest people he knew, although he has been labeled a mad-man. Van-Gogh’s knowledge of art and literature of his time was profound. He was a soul searching for his own evolution and he was ahead of his time. Many schizophrenics are ahead of their time. They are the seismographs of our individual life and culture. We do well to pay them heed.