Schizophrenic Visions
66An Introduction and Summary
This is a very dark poem. It deals with the imagery and fear created by the delusional, sick mind of a person suffering from schizophrenia. If you are a squeamish person and/or not a fan of graphic horror images, you may want to turn back now. However, if you do manage to make it through, I've also included some informational content about schizophrenia, its causes, symptoms, and possible treatments. In addition , don't be bashful about telling me what you think in the polls and/or comments.
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See results without votingSchizophrenic Visions - a poem by Kelly W. Patterson
Evil spins among the frightful innocents
Bloodlust cries out from clenched fangs
Faith disappears amid psychosis
While serpents engulf crucified souls
Anguish entangles fleeting caresses
While Nosferatu repels dying clutches
A ravenous Wolf satiates upon the soul
The Asylum secretes its spectral fear
Prayers yield only barren impudence
Resulting in nothing but lost hopes
Desire rewarded with baleful manacles
Both disappear down a fleeting void
A forgotten Muse laments lost beauty
While Rats whisper sweet nothings
A Spider spins a most natural beauty
Before hungrily devouring its Guest
The Evil From Within
A Schizophrenic Artist
Some References on Schizophrenia
- Treatments For Schizophrenia
Education, medication and rehabilitation options for treating schizophrenia - Schizophrenia.com - Complementary Schizophrenia Treatments
Treatments for victims of schizophrenia. - Understanding Schizophrenia: Signs, Symptoms, and Causes
Supportive guide to schizophrenia's signs, symptoms, causes, and effects. Also helps you understand the major types: paranoid schizophrenia, disorganized schizophrenia, and catatonic schizophrenia. - Schizophrenia Symtoms:Hallucinations and innapropriate expressions
Information on schizophrenia symtoms such as hallucinations and innapropriate expressions.Original articles written by a Licensed Psychologist in private practice. - Schizophrenia: It\'s Cause and Consequences
Schizophrenia: What is it and what do we do about it? Original articles written by a Licensed Psychologist in private practice.
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Thanks Dave. I appreciate it.
I don't get it....
You don't want to get schizophrenia Pamda.
It is difficult to imagine their minds in such a turmoil and is expressed well. :)
I never said I want schizophrenia. I'm just saying his poem looks weird to me.
Thanks Dame. It is a very destructive form of mental illness. The delusions can be very realistic to the person suffering from schizophrenia.
Oh, it's you.... -.- Lol.
Maybe you need to adjust the settings on your screen Pamda.
Why?
Your avi probably wouldn't have a headache from looking at it.
Very dark but accurate- schizophrenia is nothing to laugh about.
Nicely done,
-Fresh Writing
Wow, this is amazing. I don't say that lightly, either. You have chosen just the right words to describe this frightening nightmare. I don't have any experience w/ schizophrenia other than what I've read here and there, but from an artistic standpoint this poem is excellent. I very much like your style.
Poetry is so personal that the only way to truly judge the value of it (from a writers perspective) is when you say "Damn, I should have wrote that" And I did, well done!
You may enjoy and/or find inspiration from some of mine:
www.triond.com/users/hatednation
very descriptive
Thank you Fresh Writing, RooBee, and Holly. I very much appreciate both the feedback and compliments.
HatedNation, I'm also on Triond, but I use it mostly just to post photography. I'll venture over there and have a look around your profile.
I think you captured the mind of one of my loved ones fairly well Kelly. 'A forgotten Muse laments lost beauty' this line seems to sum up some of the voices they hear.
Well I was hoping to read something that really creeped me out but ehh.
I suppose the poem was okay. While subbing once, I received a picture from a student. The student looked just as "normal" as everyone else, sweet kid really.
But what the student drew, in remarkable detail and swore it was what the student saw...that was real.
And the most amazing thing about it was the students works was so fascinating, so accurate, so detailed in every way that the only way I could, in some way, understand it was to understand that they really don't know the difference...
Thanks ralwus. My brother was schizophrenic and it really does profoundly alter people.
Thanks for the input sandra. The delusions associated with schizophrenia are very real to them.
"I suppose (it) was okay"... it is amazing how everyone interprets or reacts to poetry different. This seems so harsh for a really good poem. But, to each their own. I just happened back here, saw that, and couldn't help commenting on it. I just felt compelled to re-iterate how good I think you are. Not that you need the encouragement, but you never know. :)
Thank you very much RooBee. Everybody needs encouragement.
While I certainly prefer your type of reaction and am glad that most people who have commented reacted positively, everyone has a right to their own sensibilities. So long as they aren't deliberately trying to be hurtful, I don't try to prevent people from expressing their honest opinions. I much prefer to kill them with kindness and/or sarcasm.
Kelly, I was all prepared to get scared up by actually it made me sad, how awful for someone to have to suffer frightening delusions like that.
Yeah Dolores, I think it really is one of the worst things someone could be afflicted with.
Extremely descriptive and possibly informative. I might have to consider such an idea for any future poetry hubs I create.
Thanks Valerie. I do think it's best to provide a good amount of content. Poems tend to be rather short, so I felt including related info would be a good way to flesh it out.
Long chambers of visual fear.....I enjoyed it. Thanks for posting it...
Thank you for reading it Michael. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Hi,
I enjoyed your poem to a certain degree. Broad use of language but I felt lost in the words more than natural creating imagery. I enjoyed reading what you had to say and I appreciate you tried to encapsulate the schizophrenic experience with the dense style. Obviously many people enjoyed it though for whatever reasons. I have diagnosed schizophrenia and two sisters so it is interesting to hear comments made by people with siblings suffering the illness. I too write poetry, I have a written on hubpages about my experience with schizophrenia also, take a look, its my first hand experience.
Thanks for stopping by BC. I will check out your profile when I get a chance.
I really like it, I recently watched a movie about a serial killer dealing with schizophrenia very dark and intense world one has to live in...
Thanks much, suiteorchids!
I have an ex-mother-inlaw who, one psychiatrist said had the worse case of schizophrenia he had ever seen. It's an illness that is all consuming and many times misunderstood. Schizophrenics, because of an inherent lack of trust, tend to not want to take the medications that can lessen or even eliminate their symptoms. It's really very sad, and as much as you want to help the individual, it can be difficult because they really don't trust you either. While most mental illnesses don't have to be a life sentence, unfortunately schizophrenia, I think, for many is!
That's very true Jery. One of the big issues with schizophrenics is the tendency among them not to take their medication. Besides the paranoia that often comes along with schizophrenia, a lot of the medication available also acts as a sedative as much as an actual solution, if not more. Being sluggish and tired all the time when on the medication is something that makes it more likely that people suffering with schizophrenia will not take their medication.
this poem is very powerful. I recently saw a little girl (on the Oprah Winfrey show) who was born schizophrenic. it is a terrible illness, and her parents have to live in separate apartments (next to each other) so she doesn't harm her little brother. I can only imagine the challenges they face on a daily basis. what was so striking was her incredibly vivid and rich imagination and exceedingly advanced IQ. I wanted to write a book about her to document her visions - they re just unbelievable.
That does sound pretty outrageous cosette. It is a bad situation all around. Sometimes, even more so for the family and friends of the afflicted.
Very interesting hub, i really like the image of the pic you posted.
Thanks MrMidNight, the pic is from Arkham Asylum a classic Batman graphic novel. It's well worth reading.
I have schizophrenia and have tried multiple drugs and am mostly allergic to anti psychotics so my response be prerogative. I currently take 1200 lithium, flexiril for neuralgia pain tardive dyskenisia and grimace facial muscle pain, metoprolol tartrate for hypertension due to inflammation or other, and ambien for sleep terror disorder. I have constant auditory and visual hallucinations with two other personalities that try to takeover my main personality for use of my day to day body and I have found that Ambien and other hypnotic sedatives work better than lithium and all other drugs I have taken, I take ten mg ambien and if I stay awake it causes the voices to fall asleep and become much less responsive and much less hallucinatory, though it increases the persistent sexual arousal syndrome they cause as they move around but even this is less in all at its peak. If they could develop a sedative hypnotic i could take during the daytime that does not cause visual hallucinations I would take it and it would be seventy five percent effective rather than the dull twenty five percent effectiveness of lithium and other antipsychotics that do not cause (in some cases) even worse symptoms than the schizophrenia bacteria by itself without any chemical compounds at all.
That picture of the joker is light considering what the bacteria actually shows someone who couldnot possibly medium the representation
Thanks for the info and good luck Chaoco. I do know that many schizophrenia sufferers have problems finding medication that is effective without causing adverse side effects.
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An intense read...very descriptive, i enjoyed it.... :)