I don't want to discuss the question if our symptoms like voices are real. I think everybody has their own way of looking at it. But no matter what the source of our symptoms is - they constitute a form of reality for us as the community of schizophrenic humans.

When I fell sick 23 years ago, all the doctors and therapists would keep telling me that the contents and the created reality of my psychosis would be completely irrelevant. The goal and the cure would be to disregard the schizophrenia and force myself back to the normal reality.

Today we are much more advanced. To me the relational approach to our illnesses has been the only successful way of survival. It is well known and accepted that it is helpful and successful to create relationships inside our other reality, to talk to the voices, to question them, to show compassion and to make a stand to defend your own self from the implications that these symptoms make about us as persons.

I wonder how many more years will have to pass until there will be public interest and acceptance and acknowledgement of our expansion of reality. When will there be systematic studies of the contents of psychosis? There are so many similarities in our experiences. This is not just an "illness" or a misfunction of the brain.

We constitute the door to another form or even another dimension of reality. I am convinced that this is important for all of mankind. Maybe we are not crazy after all. Just read the contributions to this subreddit.  We don't make our experiences up. These are real and very similar encounters with existing phenomena. Even though we don't know if the source of this is in the human brain or outside of it, it is real and should be recognized as important for everyone, not just for those who are diagnosed with schizophrenia.

To me this is similar to the reality of other galaxies and solar systems in the universe. They are relevant to everybody, not just to the chosen scholars who have access to advanced telescope technology and astrophysics.

Good day to you all. It's so funny that outsiders will take my post as a prove for the "illness approach" to schizophrenia. But I know many of us won't.