http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/09/demystifying-the-possible-%e2%80%9cgenetic-vulnerability-to-schizophrenia%e2%80%9d/ New understandings of the mind and of madness can open new doors to full recovery - thoughts from way outside the straightjacket of the "medical model." By Ron Unger LCSW Wed, 16 May 2012 15:34:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/2009/09/demystifying-the-possible-%e2%80%9cgenetic-vulnerability-to-schizophrenia%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-897 Marian Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:06:01 +0000 http://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/?p=214#comment-897 Fourth: If the world was perfect there would be no suffering in it. The question is whether the world isn't perfect because there's suffering in it, or whether there's suffering in the world because it isn't perfect. The question is whether "schizophrenia" itself is a disadvantage, or whether it actually is an advantage. Or, put in a different way, whether it is an advantage or a disadvantage to be able to react extremely to extreme environmental influences, i.e. to react appropriately. Fourth: If the world was perfect there would be no suffering in it. The question is whether the world isn’t perfect because there’s suffering in it, or whether there’s suffering in the world because it isn’t perfect. The question is whether “schizophrenia” itself is a disadvantage, or whether it actually is an advantage. Or, put in a different way, whether it is an advantage or a disadvantage to be able to react extremely to extreme environmental influences, i.e. to react appropriately.

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