we Still don’t know why the 75-Year-old, mentally ill woman killed two weeks ago, a 7-year-old boy in Basel with a knife. The perpetrator should suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, is to be read, you had already been for an Offence in psychiatry and interned.

The Public tends to schizophrenia and violence as synonyms perceive, and this violence is always particularly cruel occurs. This perception seems to be confirmed from time to Time. Regularly we read of men who dismember their parents, the Insane, the attack with a knife on politicians, amok runners, running with an axe through the streets, men who murder women, bestial, or for no apparent reason passers-by. And of which in each case means that you were not sane.

Were these people to compress an image, then it is the Face of Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s “the Shining” based on a novel by Stephen King, who himself suffered a terrible Childhood with fondness horror stories to write. Nicholson plays in Kubrick’s Film, the writer Jack Torrance, with his wife and son an empty mountain hotel in the mountains of Colorado for the Winter guard. When his wife realized that her husband writes in his new theatre piece, but for months, the same sentence in his typewriter skin, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”, it’s too late: Jack, as he is called in the Film, has lost his mind. And wants to correct, as a waiter of the hotel many years ago, his family””, the kill is called.

“In one of 2000 cases, it can lead to violence.”

Approximately one percent of the population suffers from schizophrenia, the number is over all times and cultures is constant and is today, at least in part, to a metabolic disturbance in the brain. Often the disease grow out of it after a few episodes, sometimes becomes chronic, and others Sick by suffering phase and living in between, unremarkable.

this is a percent of Patients may occur in one of 2000 cases of violence. The danger is in absolutely no proportion to the fear in front of her. The majority of Schizophrenics experience themselves as victims. Many suffer through terrible Fears. You hear voices that tell them in a commanding tone, that her life was worth nothing. You can’t think coherently, speak incomprehensible, some fall silent.

And because of the megalomania is the clinical nurse of the Paranoia, feel schizophrenic patients, often in delusional systems are captured, where an intelligence behind them and in the bushes a sniper lying in wait. Headlines, intention-free rate in a Bus contain messages, which can only suggest the sick. Some Schizophrenics talk loudly or quietly, others run aimlessly through the streets, others close to home, to sects, or see the end of the world to come. Medications may dampen the symptoms, but also a stable psycho-therapeutic relationship is crucial, because Schizophrenics have a big mistrust, and because of their symptoms completely the Association office. They live in a hell that you have created yourself.

(editing Tamedia)

Created: 04.04.2019, 18:53 Uhr