Schizophrenia: What we don't know

A special day?
24th May was World Schizophrenia Day. While we dedicate one day of the calendar year to some or the other illness these days, it's still a distant dream to enhance awareness and appropriate education about different physical as well as psychological conditions; sufficient enough to enable each one of us to take the right steps towards identifying them and treating them appropriately. More so in psychological conditions like schizophrenia. Frequently misconstrued as witchcraft, outcome of sins, possession by spirits or just simply insanity that warrants punishment; schizophrenia is rarely well understood and appreciated as a medical illness that deserves medical care and nursing just like all physical other illnesses.

Not so blessed with intellect

Why my child?

All children are divine gifts from God. How the little embryo transforms in to the fetus and is delivered from your being into this universe is a miraculous process. And as much as science has progressed to help us understand the process, we still don't know things that go on at the back end before we get the final product in our hands. Some of our children seem to develop and progress as per the accepted norms and stages that they must accomplish at times in their development. However, for some reason, some children lag behind in the same. Some in fact may be faster than their normal counterparts while others are slower. And at times the slower ones do not have the ability to catch up. It’s not their fault. It’s simply the way it was destined for them. These kids who lack the ability to develop in their mind and their abilities as they are supposed to in keeping with other kids of their age, have intellectual deficits.

Making your child obey you

The dictum in life is to be reasonable in expectations so that we are not let down. Maxims also state that when you put in your best you are welcome to expect the finest outcome. And then, laws of physics state that every action generates an equal and opposite reaction. Next, mirrors reflect back at us what we truly are, nothing more, naught less. So the key to happiness (backed by evidence base and science) is to sow the best seed so that you get supreme and flawless crop. That crop who ‘wants’ to listen to you. The crop who ‘waits’ for your command because he has the utmost desire to follow you as his role model. The crop that every parent wishes, dreams, prays, pines for. The crop of the obedient child.