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Schizophrenia Bullentin has a paper entitled The Self in the Spectrum: A Meta-analysis of the Evidence Linking Basic Self-Disorders and Schizophrenia. The upshot of the paper is that individuals with schizoprenia spectrum disorders have disturbed senses of self. How can there not be disturbed senses of self when a marginalized individual experiences himeself or herself at the center of world events and world history?
Individuals with schizophrenia are totally aware of many data points that would suggest they are the periphery of the periphery of great events, however, that is not the lived reality. The experience of being at the center of great events is very, very difficult to shake. Individiuals with schizophrenia are not making wrong deductions and therefore therefore deduce that they are at the center of world events. Nor do individuals believe they are the center of world events as some sort of psychological compensation.The world is inside their heads. Being at the center of world events is a lived reality. Like Zeus looking into to the pool who could thereby see what was happening on Earth with the world inside their heads individuals with schizophrenia can see what is happening across the world or it seems.
Medications can help. Adopting at least partly an external point of view on one’s illness can help but explorations of the mind and self when one is already way too much in the head do not help at all.
On the other side of equation are mental health clinics that overmedicate, over promise and underdeliver. Money that should go to housing instead goes to teams at mental health clinics who from the patient’s perspective frequently are only there to harass. Housing first does not please mental health beureacracies but if there was housing first costs could be kept down and healthcare of indivduals with serious mental illnesses would improve tremendously.