by Donesha
Kill Off Lives
Lie, Confuse, and Damage
Incapable Of Escaping My Presence
I’m Everywhere You Go
Especially When I Know Something You Should
I’ll Whisper It In Your Ear, Give Off A Scent Here and
There and Pass A Touch Too Your Body.
The reality of our world is unbearable. There are so many opinions about a weird smelly homeless man, who argues with himself daily about things you don’t quite understand. When you actually sit and think of him, you think “what was going on in his head?”
It is a mental disorder where you don’t know the difference between reality and the make believe. It’s hard to have normal emotional responses and act normal in social structures. It gets really noticeable when the patient experiences catatonia, abnormality of movement and behavior arising from a disturbed mental state. There are positive symptoms, negative symptoms, and cognitive symptoms. In a normal sympathetic person’s point of view, none of this is positive. Positive symptoms are classified as hallucinations, delusions and thought and movement disorders (agitated movements, disorganized and dysfunctional thinking.) Negative symptoms could be a lack of normal emotions and behaviors: Stiff expressions, dull voices, and being incapable of having pleasure in everyday life. Certain things can go unrecognized which are cognitive symptoms; Foggy memory, forgetting what you had planned for next week, small attention span (little to nothing), and being at the break of not being able to make decisions.
6% of the type of people who suffer from this mental disorder end up in jails, 5-6% resides in hospitals, 10% live in nursing facilities, 25% live with a family member, 28% live independently and 20% live in a group home.(http://www.schizophrenia.com/szfacts.htm) So stop to think, when you see those homeless elderly men on the corner arguing with themselves about crossing the street and sitting in that spot by McDonald's, does he fall in this category. Everyone are not meant to have the same mind set as you. Be mindful of your thoughts because your unaware of their situation.
I’m young and not so cautious of my actions, but I believe the world we live in is horrible. I have a personal story that connects to this situation. When I was younger, I remember waking up early in the morning, and walking to the bus stop with my mom, little brother and sister. We waited on the same bus every day. Every time our bus pulled up, as I peeked through the window, waiting to get on the bus, I saw this old man. He was very tall, light-skinned, had the most rigid beard, and a shiny bald head. He always wore a brown bulky coat and had an old black cassette player resting on his lap. He always chuckled and laughed at himself. Although no one would ever sit next to him, he seemed to always answer questions to himself and laugh afterwards. He would rock in a very fast motion and point and talk to inanimate objects. He frightened me a little. This was one of those times where you saw something and it grasped your eye very tightly.
Schizophrenia is a scary thought, especially when your naive to the truth. Anyone can be diagnosed with it. There are about 7.046 billion people in the world and about 24 million people worldwide that suffer from schizophrenia. (World Health Organization) Schizophrenia is hard to bear with and hard to know that someone close to you suffers from it. It’s also hard to know that when you see someone suffering from it, you don’t hesitate to make a remark that wasn't well thought-out. They say you can’t help someone that doesn't want it, so the only thing that you can do is hope that they get the best in life and offer your help. If they refuse your gesture, don't force it, they'll eventually find their way. No one deserves to live a life suffering from such a cruel disease.
Visit the link below to learn more about the personal life of someone who suffers from Schizophrenia:
Works Cited
1. "What Is Schizophrenia?" National Institute Of Mental Health, www.nimh.nih.gov
2. "Schizophrenia" World Health Organization, 2014
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