Ep.1 Living With Schizophrenia ft. Reshma Valliappan

A TEDX Speaker & Ashoka Fellow, Reshma Valiapan, is among the people to embrace Schizophrenia and take advantage of it to become successful at a plethora of activities, one of them being Painting. Schizophrenia  is a very tough mental illness where the person suffering and their  environment both get affected in equal and more proportions. This was  first identified in the year 1887.  John  Nash, the Nobel prize winner, Albert Einstein's Son, The most admired  Novelist of American Pop Culture Jack Kerouac, all were diagnosed with  this chronic mental illness .  One of the primary symptoms is they hear voices- who tell them to do various things.  In  our podcast- THE SOS SHOW- with the admirable artist, Reshma Valliappan  we try to decipher those voices; we also try and understand the basis  of Schizophrenia.  It's  very strange that with all the medical developments we still don't have  a complete understanding of this mental illness- in fact, we are still  at the tip of the iceberg.  In  this conversation, Reshma strongly feels it is the dysfunctional  parenting that leads to this chronic illness- SO DO WE NEED TO PAY  ATTENTION TO DYSFUNCTIONAL PARENTING- AND CAN WE DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT  AS A SOCIETY!! We  still don't have any good medication without side effects for  Schizophrenia; in fact, THE SIDE EFFECTS ARE SO SEVERE THAT THE PERSON  STOPS FUNCTIONING AT ALL; IS ANYONE LISTENING TO THIS. AND CAN WE DO  SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. So what are the alternate forms of medication to  deal with Schizophrenia?  This  and much more as we explore and dig deeper into this misnomer and very  little understood,  mental illness in the EP 1 of THE SOS SHOW.  Here are few take aways from the episode: 1) the basis of Schitzhophernia-is it DNA or something else  2) medications for schizophrenia  3) psychotherapy  4) alternative medication  5) building a strong community to support Want to share your experiences or thoughts to this episode? Mail us to [email protected] or DM us on @eplogmedia on Instagram & TwitterSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.