Quelle: issuu.com/home/published 27.5.2021 Me - the miracle of You Chava Karin Roth An attempt on the heaviness of the outspoken, about the annihilation of the burden of the words in dialog, about different forms and process in the progress of togetherness, about traditions of thinking and questioning the self-evident, about the relational self, about what we are able to say, about statements already done and about the not-told, about ways and forms of listening. Selected thoughts on 3 years of dialog with Daniel and me, the art of open doors with different keys, the belief that something different is possible. On proper motion and on alternatives beyond psychiatry.
How much is the word? Daniel had volunteered in different fields every now and then and usually would quit. So he was told - being unable to work under common conditions -, he just might be able to work under supervised conditions also known as in a workshop for „handicapped people“. As an offspring, he was unable to find a way to establish himself into "normality, so he drifted away and into the world of gang-banging, excessive drug-use and abuse which leaded into drug-dealing and possession of firearms. He just slided away from being arrested. He quit taking drugs as a consequence of getting a last chance not getting thrown out of school. After he stopped taking marihuana he developed - in his own words - acute „depression, complete apathy and a generalized socio-phobia“. He cut off his social life and stopped going to school. After that he was institutionalized into a special program for young delinquents. Years later he would describe his time there as a feeling of having no responsibilities and the need of living the extreme, everything - from techno-livestyle to begging and being arrested. When he was 17, he just tried to turn it around and decided to start in another direction and gave himself in the hands of a private psychiatric institution for endangered young people. He turned 18, while he lived there.
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