The Process in Which Patients with Shizophrenia Coming to a Psychiatric Day Care or a Small-Scale Workshop Rearch "Oriai" with Reality

Abstract

Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 patients with schizophrenia coming to a psychiatric day care or smallscale workshop to explore the process of reaching "Oriai" , living of myself world. The interviews yielded qualitative date that were coded and put into five categories: "I have become relaxed" , "I am coping with the present situation" , "I have faced the past" ,"I am staring into the future" , "I accept myself as good enough" , the last one being the core category. Patients managed to feel relaxed, acquire coping ability to situation, face the past, fell as if their situation is all right, and accept their situation. However, they live daily trying to cope with everything happening to them, cope with worrying about their future, and trying to look into the near future.