poor man .. is dog ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWTx_gUtBno(Edited 18 seconds later.)
Shamanism ?
Schizophrenia is one such term that can be viewed as a social construction. Walker has argued that psychiatric diagnoses are nothing but linguistic abstractions. He has criticized the DSM-IV's poor reliability and postulated that terms like 'schizophrenia' and 'mental illness' only exist by consensus and persist by convention. Further he argues that the pathologizing language which persists in the medical model of disability is unuseful in working towards a recovery model.[1]
Other notable practitioners and authors within the humanistic tradition that have viewed schizophrenia as a social construction include psychiatrist Thomas Szasz (1920–2012), Joseph Berke, R.D. Laing, Erich Fromm and Mary Barnes. Szasz viewed the diagnoses as a fabrication that is borderline abusive in terms of treatment. Szasz has protested against the taxonomic classifications of mental illness and reification of these as 'science' and has long argued against institutionalisation as a fundamental deprivation of liberty. In Berke's and Barnes's book two accounts of a journey through madness, Berke explores themes of psychosis as an enriching experience. Berke argues that the invalidation of schizophrenic experiences labelled 'sick or mad' is a uniquely western standpoint insofar as dream states and altered perception are not considered valid modes of interpolation of the truth within westernised culture.[2]
Laing (1964) commented “the mad things done and said by the schizophrenic will remain essentially a closed book if one does not understand their existential context”.[3]
Noll (1983) has explored the links between shamanism and schizophrenia, testing the research evidence on shamanism against the DSM-III diagnostic criterion. Though he draws comparisons between the two states of mind in terms of the phenomenon experienced, he draws out important differences between shamanic and schizophrenic states, notably that many people on the schizophrenic spectrum do not voluntarily enter an altered state of consciousness whereas research into shamanism unilaterally shows that shamanic states are induced and controlled voluntarily by the shaman, who ultimately maintains a healthy world view between a base line level of consciousness and an altered state of consciousness. He concludes that differences between schizophrenic and shamanic states such as 'volition', mean that the DSM-III cannot be used to define shamanism as the same state as schizophrenia.[4] Robert Sapolsky has theorized that shamanism is practiced by schizotypal individuals rather than schizophrenics.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_construction_of_schizophrenia Lol, a little dark classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85BNrEUYHO0(Edited 10 seconds later.)
ok, back to witnessing people with real schizophrenia.
I think it is because of the Christian world, and children with a different perspective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61GmUYCzCzU
EDIT: it call these children, societally stigmatized. Their reality does not match with what they see.
(Edited 1 minute later.)
Some hope for these children and their parents.
Something for Jani.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2XTsWgN0CU(Edited 10 seconds later.)