alt Hacker NewsTo this point, some cultures see schizophrenia as friendly, not scary.
https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2014/07/voices-culture-luh...
> In the United States, the voices are harsher, and in Africa and India, more benign, said Tanya Luhrmann, a Stanford professor of anthropology and first author of the article in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
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shermantanktop • today at 2:56 PM
This idea relocates the problem from the individual to “culture” or “society,” leaving no solutions for someone suffering from schizophrenia.
I also have a hard time believing that schizophrenia manifests as something like benign quirkiness in some other country.
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> To this point, some cultures see schizophrenia as friendly, not scary.
That should not be your conclusion from the article.
"the voices" are hardly the only symptom that people with schizophrenia suffer from. A lot of those affected don't have auditory hallucinations at all and are still suffering from one of the (if not the) most debilitating mental disorders out there.
Calling it "friendly" risks trivialising of the very real symptoms.