[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

I have a couple of close friends who are schizophrenic, it can be very interesting to say the least...

the medical treatment and so-called medication which is given to people with these conditions is horrifyingly abusive to their own individual humanity. While schizophrenia is a disease, it is one that is intimately connected with the personality and mental processes of the individual, so that as you systematically remove the vestiges of the disease, you inadvertently destroy the individual as well, and this is precisely why most schizophrenic people that I know relapse from any kinds of treatment they are on and go AWOL from time to time to binge in the depths of their distorted perception of the world...

I also think that Jung's work in the 60s connecting LSD trips and schizophrenic episodes is right on target. He suggested that schizophrenics be allowed, under psychological guidance and medical support, to continue through their episode as if it were an LSD trip, so that at the end of the episode they come down just like someone who is tripping. further, Jung suggests that dramatically attacking the disease in the midst of an episode is as catastrophic for the person as is interrupting someone in the middle of an acid trip, and that the result will be the same in a schizophrenic person as a tripping one, a bad fucking trip. his approach was sort of laissez faire