Time is a dream of eternity’s, an imagining
by infinity. We will never truly comprehend such things.
But this, the day that is here: we can make of it anything.
Anonymous
12:51am tuesday, 1st march
Cheers! Drink up!
Tim
9:15pm tuesday, 1st march
I saw the pathethic movie K-Pax. The guy, I guess either has the phrenia or has a split personality where the repressed person has emerged for the movie. Stupid movie...but...does your phrenia relate to split personalities...or is SP unrelated to schizophrenia?
Stand
2:05pm wednesday, 2nd march
Multiple personality disorder is a different disease from schizophrenia, and a lot more rare.
Strawberry
1:50am thursday, 3rd march
Tim - The movie K-Pax is based on a far superior South American or Spanish movie made in the late 1980's. I am not certain, but I believe the title is "The Man Facing Southeast". It is beautiful, holy, crazy, genius, and yes, perhaps there is an extra-terrestrial. Hollywood couldn't come close.
When the term "schizophrenia" was first created it was intended to refer to a split. Not a split of the personality. The split was between a person's body and their soul. Modern psychiatry doesn't care much about souls, and in fact I suspect that most psychiatrists are either indifferent to religious faith or if they have one, it is only practiced loosely. However, as I have experienced schizophrenia, it is indeed a split between my body and my soul. When the symptoms are bad my soul has lost it's normal communication with my brain. I exist as a soul but the soul cannot command the body or lead the body through a reality that is efficient for the person as a whole. The split of a soul from a person's body is unnatural and very painful. We are meant to exist in harmony between the physical and the spiritual.
In a split (or multiple) personality the brain never stops working and usually the brain does a good job of leading the person through reality. In a multiple personality the experience of a living self changes, but there is always a self of some sort present to engage the brain. In schizophrenia, when a split occures in the brain it is the very self of the person that can be absent or partially abolished from the workings of the organism.
Psychiatry calls schizophrenia a "thought" disorder and multiple personality a "personality" disorder. To make it simple, the thought of the multiple personality (no matter what self is present) can reason that 2+2=4. Good logical thinking.
The schizophrenic may say that 2+2= a cat. Or that 2+2 is a lie and all numbers equal zero. Or, in my case, if I had schizophrenic symptoms, I might be a bit confused if the answer to the question was 4 or 6, and then if I had the answer in my mind I may not be able to speak it out loud with my voice. Or something else might happen to me when I am schizophrenic. Say that I can easily remember that 2+2=4 but then I become paranoid and think that the person asking me this question is an asshole. So in anger I clear the table between us of all the papers that are on it with a sweep of my arm and tell the person who is with me that they are a modern day Nazi. This is not my usual quiet, sweet self, (Ha!) but my disease has given me strange perspectives and strange emotions that have caused me to act like someone who I am not.
Stand
4:38am thursday, 3rd march
Wow, great comment, Strawberry!
Tim
6:22pm thursday, 3rd march
Thanks...and you have no control over your ability to "clear the table"? I mean, you have decided this person is a Nazi, and you "freak out". Do you know you are "freaking out" and you can't stop it? Do you remember later on the "freaking out" episode and why? Or
is it uncontrolable and you are a spectator too?
I remember the movie you mentioned, I never saw it, but I believe Ebert gave it a thumbs up!!
Strawberry
1:05am friday, 4th march
Stand, this is your website. What would you like me to do?
Stand
1:26am friday, 4th march
Tim, when I personally have had psychotic episodes, I am aware of what I am doing, but the perception of the situation is not the same as would a "normal" person's would be at the time. If and when I recover, I look back on them and remember what I was thinking at the time, and I can see why I did those things, but it's from a different perspective. It is uncontrollable in the fact that at the time, you completely believe the altered perception, but during it, you think you are in complete control.
For instance: back in August of 2001 (look in the archives of this site for it), I took off all my clothes and walked around San Francisco for about a half an hour. At the time, I thought I had been transported to Heaven. It made perfect sense to me then, that I was speaking to angels. Was this uncontrollable? Yes, I couldn't have seen it any other way at the time, but no, I was not just a passive spectator. I actively was throwing away the garments of my earthly life when I thought I was then in Paradise.
I'm not sure if I've made myself clear. Let me know, Tim, if you need further elaboration.
p.s. This is based on my personal experience, and may not hold for someone else who's been schizophrenic.
Schitzophrenzia
2:28am sunday, 4th september
I am kicking around the possibility that the human animal has evolved a certain place in the brain that "needs to build something". Something like a house or a hotrod or create music. And in our modern cities where the human animal becomes trapped with no resources or room to do fullfill this need, the human animal becomes idol, aimless, lithargic, bipolar, and other "socially disfunctional" behaviors they are labeled with. These disfunctions are "normal behavior" for their narrow life styles in a modern cage. This is why no drug works on schizophrenia, and it is why no real MRI study (as opposed to the bogus, made up stories about MRI studies) will ever find schizophrenia--a mythical illness. The cure for idol, aimless, raving is to either relieve it by facilitating creativity (and stimulants), or by removing the longing for creativity with depressant drugs--(not stimulants). Doctors are modern witches.
Schitzophrenzia
2:32am sunday, 4th september
The entire medical profession is made up of a bunch of rotten guessers.
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