It's been interesting considering how I consider myself and others and how it relates to my psychotic symptoms The way the self is considered in the society of reference is fundamental to an understanding of psychosis.
Core schemas relating to the self and others seem to strongly interrelate with pathology
Re-shaping the schemas away from the self/other-denigrating pathological aspects where "I am an unlovable, worthless, failure who can't do anything right, should just kill myself" and "Everyone else hates me" to growth by fortifying new healthier ones.
I've been able to see that the supportive kind souls are "good, accepting, supportive" and through support workers etc I've slowly been able to move from the "I am unloved, worthless, weak, bad, a failure" to start to rebuild growth around positive values
MYSELF
I am unloved
I am worthless
I am weak
I am vulnerable
I am bad
I am a failure
I am respected
I am valuable
I am talented
I am successful
I am good
I am interesting
OTHER PEOPLE
Other people are hostile
Other people are harsh
Other people are unforgiving
Other people are bad
Other people are devious
Other people are nasty
Other people are fair
Other people are good
Other people are trustworthy
Other people are accepting
Other people are supportive
Other people are truthful
The are associations between negative personal evaluations (described as negative character deficits) and positive psychotic symptoms and people with psychosis showed very extreme negative evaluations of self and others.
Psychosis may be characterized by feelings of social defeat and negative schemas. This social defeat may impact the presence of attenuated psychotic symptoms by means of negative schemas - social adversities can lead to the development of negative schemas that may then relate to psychosis.
Reorientation toward values significant for one's life, despite the fact that certain experiences persist and disturb. Commitment is acting in the direction of values in spite of the distress caused by the symptoms. The question is not to wait until one gets better before going out and living, but rather to act and remake one's life so as to feel better, or at least, to be on the way to something, and not just shut up inside oneself. This reorientation of self-experiences toward values begins with the identification and clarification of one's own values. Social Predictors of Psychotic Experiences: Specificity and Psychological Mechanisms (nih.gov)
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