can mental illness be positive, like someone hearing voices but telling them to do good things or complimenting them or encouraging and praising them? or is all mental illness like sczhophenia all negetive?
2006-11-24 23:17:53 · 11 answers · asked by Eboni 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Can be good. My ex-mother-in-law has been nutty as a fruit cake since the 60s and she's still going strong. In the 60s she received electric shock treatment which did no good, but if you were to confront her with some crass remark she once made, she would simply answer, 'I don't remember, dear - it's because of the shock treatment.' Doesn't stop her taking part in quizzes and winning for her team.
2006-11-24 23:23:49 · answer #1 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There was recently a good series of programmes on about Manic Depression & many sufferers were interviewed about how it affected their lives. As I remember it, there was only 1 person who said that they wished they didn't have the illness - so from this it was deduced that the illness gave sufferers something positive in their lives. Obviously, there are many degrees of mental illness and I don't think that you can say in general terms that it's good or bad as many things will influence the outlook for that person - support, treatment, safety issues etc.
2006-11-25 10:24:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi Eboni,
I like your question as not many people would ask this and it interests me too.
People beleive in God and yet no one has ever seen him but they talk to him and ask him for guidance and to forgive any sins. So who are these people talking to when they say it is this unseen voice called God? - what makes the difference between somone who is a Schitzophrenic and somone who talks to an invisible entity???????
Clearly, the mental health team think that it is okay for some to talk to invisible people and not for others, but obviously people must get something out of it like psychic's who fortell the future and predict from wonderful events from the other side of the unknown. I think we all talk to ourselves from time to time and to make sure that we are really alive!
I tell my ego (higher-self) that I am going to have a huge mansion in the country and lots of money and so that I can beleive that it will happen, it is what keeps me going and what keeps me alive! - if I didn't tell myself these positive things, then I wouldn't beleive that I could have these things at all, whether it happens or not.
We all massage our ego's with talk like this and tell ourselves we are doing okay and we have a conversation with ourselves in our minds, so we do hear our own voice talking back to us when we do this. I tell myself all the time, I am doing okay and yes, I have given some clothes to the charity shops so that is positive stuff!
If we didn't praise or compliment ourselves, we would only hear negative things like the voices in our minds tell us that we are no good etc etc. So are we mentally sound to be talking to ourselves in our mind's? - why aren't we all schitzophrenic?.
I once worked on a psychiatric ward and I met some very very intelligent patients there, one man was schitzophrenic and he heard his mother telling him to turn the light off. He kept trying to unscrew a lightbulb from the ceiling and no one knew why! - it was because he still, years and years later, could hear his mother talking to him because her voice was lodged in his memory.
He did what she asked and so he was doing the right thing. If he didn't turn the light off, then he felt that she was going to come and shout at him and so he feared her a lot. He felt that by taking all of the bulbs out, then everyone else would be safe too as she wouln't be angry with them either. He was protecting all of the other patients and so this was something positive in his mind and saving the psychiatric ward money on electricity too!
So, yes there are a lot of positive things that do come out of mental illness.
2006-11-25 08:00:16 · answer #3 · answered by Shikira-trudi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi,
Some people believe that some psychics are people who handle voices they hear well and constucively, and those who dont are labled schizophrenic, same with visual hallucinations.
Also a certian amount of stress can help performace postively.
Depends on each indvidual!
2006-11-25 07:23:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well some people who have bi-polar disorder (manic depression) stop taking/refuse to take the drugs to keep their disorder under control because they miss the mania associated with the disorder. It only the depression that comes with it that they do not like.
2006-11-25 14:43:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-11-25 09:14:55 · answer #6 · answered by LIz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some of the greatest artists had severe mental problems also THE RAIN MAN was based on a true story except he didnt die
2006-11-25 09:51:22 · answer #7 · answered by Eric M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mental disease is a suffering. There is no disease if no one suffers from someone's consciousness or behavior.
2006-11-25 07:41:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love?
2006-11-25 07:19:19 · answer #9 · answered by MyName 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i have never had it, but i do imagine it is fearful for those who suffer it, i did have a breakdown after my first child, its no laughing matter.
2006-11-25 19:08:57 · answer #10 · answered by guysmithdenise 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋