The Incredulous 'Accept' - [a message to ‘Psychosis’ class of the diagnosed]
Truly I say to You to Accept Your Lot; Stop the Incredulity; Stop the Scapegoating; Accept Yourself, that You are different; But conform to Treatment to save Yourself
The Incredulous ‘Accept’ - [a message to ‘Psychosis’ class of the diagnosed]
Schizos don’t like doctors
Doctors Who give them diagnoses
Would You be kind to the bearer of such horrific news?
A Lifelong Outcast and malcontent to society
Likely to end up homeless and drug addicted and mad
Doctors do not have to know what it’s like to Be Schizo
You don’t have to Be Julius Caesar to Understand Caesar
You can observe Him from a clinical point of view
Yet the Schizos, god love Them, and as I am One Myself
Reject the notion, as if it were something to be debated; as if it were a notion.
But it’s not just cutesy word play
It is a concrete medical diagnosis and disease
There is no cure
But there is treatment
But then the Schizos blame the treatment
And it fails because They reject it out of hand
Acceptance is the word to which madmen would be best served if They understood
If they understood that They are now and forever the outcast, the anhedoniac, and avolitionist
Accept the Diagnosis
Accept the Treatment, take Your medication
The Doctors Genuinely Know Better
And You will not lead a normal life
But You have a chance at a silver lining
That You can in solitude pursue a life’s task
And from time to time enjoy social buzz and get-togethers
And You Won’t barricade Your apartment door for weeks on end and for Year upon year
The Doctors don’t have to know How it feels
I know How it Feels and I’m giving You the same advice in sobriety
No You wouldn’t be a shaman in some mongol tribe
They would exile You
The Doctors Are Your last best Hope
You can haggle with them
But You better listen to them and
‘Accept’
Accept the Diagnosis radically
Accept the Treatment Holistically and Really and Fully, take Your medication
Then At long last You can gain a semblance of a Good Life
If You’re Lucky, and if You Accept that You have been set apart
By God, through demonic possession, but into the possibility of deliverance
Truly I say to You to Accept Your Lot
Stop the Incredulity
Stop the Scapegoating
Accept Yourself, that You are different
But conform to Treatment (I urge You to take the medication) to save Yourself and preserve that last glitter of life before the Madness engulfs You…