Inside the mind of a true schizophrenic

Schizophrenia relates to a chemical imbalance in the brain. This I believe essentially results from some deep emotional trauma, sudden or otherwise. Because life is full of different kinds of emotions like, hunger, love, hate, desire, security, etcetera, therefore, schizophrenia could result from any of them.

People experiencing schizophrenia hear voices, see visions, feel someone is watching them most of the time, experience delusions in the form of a belief, form conceptions that can mislead or deceive them, experience hallucinations in the form of voices and find their brain bombarded with brilliant ideas or revelations at a time. Some can also begin to feel they are superior to others on earth and few will go so far as to actually believe they are God or God ordained and were chosen for a purpose and so preach the same. This is the reason I believe what has given rise to, Moses, Yahweh, Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohammed, Mahavir, Rama, Krishan, etcetera.

Different schizophrenics can experience different symptoms or their different combinations. The movie, ‘A beautiful mind,’ if it was entitled, A Brilliant Mind instead, it would be closer to the truth because that’s what a schizophrenic’s mind becomes, brilliant!

“There is strong evidence that schizophrenic patients have an excess number of dopamine receptors.”

“Drugs that are most potent in treating schizophrenia are also the most effective blockers of dopamine receptors. These results suggest that schizophrenia may be the result of excessive dopamine activity.”

“A general theory is proposed that attributes the origins of human intelligence to an expansion of dopaminergic systems in human cognition. Dopamine is postulated to be the key neurotransmitter regulating six predominantly left hemispheric cognitive skills critical to human language and thought: motor planning, working memory, cognitive flexibility, abstract reasoning, temporal analysis/sequencing, and generativity.”

“It is entirely possible that it is not the size, but rather the structure of the brain that determines how intelligent a species is. Fred H. Pevic feels that dopamine plays a key role in the evolution of intelligence in hominid species.”

Simply put, I feel it’s your heart that unscrewed your brain or mind in the first place through emotional turmoil and imbalanced your brain chemicals thereby changing the affinity, so it’s only your heart that can bring the balance back. You need to keep it happy! :slight_smile:

There’s a difference between wisdom and enlightenment. Wisdom comes through experience but enlightenment or revelation comes through pain, emotional pain. The more emotional pain we see in our life, the more enlightened we tend to become. I feel what happens is that our degree of emotional pain forces us to become schizophrenic but it doesn’t have to be so, only that the probability of its being so would be high and not low. Becoming schizophrenic changes the chemical affinity of our brain, giving us a higher dopamine level or whatever and thus making us more brilliant and imaginative than before. This higher brilliance, imagination or consciousness is what brings us closer to the Higher Consciousness or God and so we become more aware or enlightened regarding life in general.

Perhaps this is why most schizophrenics emphasize that God is speaking to them, perhaps He is. I believe He is. But because God is essentially just or a Justice System therefore God has to be both God and the Devil, or how would He exact justice? Therefore, when God speaks to the schizophrenic, the Devil does too sometimes. For the same reason, a schizophrenic needs to be very perceptive about what is from God and what is from the Devil. If schizophrenics just live responsibly and do the righteous thing, they’ll be just fine I believe. Also, God only gets close to those who are not close to anyone else, therefore, if schizophrenics wish to leave schizophrenia behind, they MUST ‘find meaningful company,’ loving company, otherwise God starts to be close to schizophrenics and this is God’s way of communicating with us and staying in touch with us. Not that it is bad, it’s not. It is just God’s way of coming in our world and preaching humanity to keep humanity humane. Also, it’s imperative that schizophrenics must use their muscles or do actual physical work, this could very well be housework. The physical work will keep the schizophrenic’s intellectual aspect down or in balance. What I believe happens is, the physical work neutralizes the abnormal activity of chemicals inside the brain and so tends to bring the intellectual aspect down so as to maintain a balance between the physical and the mental. This way, together with physical work and ensuring having loving company, a schizophrenic can keep their schizophrenia at bay to a large extent. A schizophrenic can choose to live with it by drawing a line where it’s not scary any more, I don’t believe that anyone could lose it completely because once the main database of God or Higher Consciousness has been tapped into, there can be no going back, only a balance can be drawn, wherever the schizophrenic feels comfortable. So, next time if anyone who is not a schizophrenic wants to label schizophrenics as mental, remember this, you would essentially be trying to label God’s smaller version as mental. And the reason why those who are not so nice or those who are corrupt don’t get schizophrenic is because they don’t have THE HEART! And that is the main reason why God does not venture anywhere near them.
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~ Beena Jain

P.S. I don’t know how to link - ‘find meaningful company’ to
moshersoteria.com/
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Nice little piece of work. I agree with your logic on schizophrenia being the, or one of the, causes that led spiritual leaders to rise as they did. If you read Genesis in the Torah, and logically analyze the actions and reasoning of Abraham, you would find, as I have, that he was a deeply troubled person and extremely insane, but not stupid.

I like the schizophrenia/religion link. I strongly suspect a significant portion of the (US) population has a bit of undiagnosed schizophrenia and the result is widespread religion.

I’d be stunned to see a shred of evidence conclusively linking religion to schizophrenia. Either that or 80% of the human population is mentally ill. Of course, if that were the case, it would probably be the other 20% that would be viewed as abberant.

I also doubt that trying to cure a physical disease like schizophrenia by simply being happy is going to be effective. Imbalances in brain chemistry probably need to be corrected with pharmaceuticals or, eventually, gene therapy. You can perhaps alleviate some of the symptoms by some small degree by applying a positive attitude, but the brain imbalance is creating the behavior, not vice versa.

It’s my opinion/belief that what we call the “mind” or “soul” is a byproduct of biology and a creation of the brain. I think we can liken it to a computer where the brain is the actual CPU, memory & storage devices and the “mind” is the software. All the things we recognize as personality traits, etc are products of the software being run. But shut off the computer and they’re gone. Tamper with BIOS or damage the CPU and the software goes all wonky on you. You can’t fix a busted PSU or CPU (the brain) by fiddling with the software (the mind).

No. no, no. Not 80%. It only takes maybe 10 to 20% and then another 60% will follow along like good little assimilators trying to survive in the big bad world.

The only damm thing that is wrong with them is that they don’t understand that they are the one creating these things. If they figure that out then they can become sci fi writers or whatever and turn their “affliction” into the gift that it could be.

I don’t make such a distinction between brain and mind.

It’s my opnion that 100 % of the population of earth are schizophrenic

What allows us to cross either line is whether we choose to follow a life dedicated to god or whether we divulge in evil
seeing as we are speaking of the lord, we must agree that the devil is real

What if from birth our spirit writes to our brain like a harddrive putting all the key characteristics (from healthy emotions) into a written personality.

Now picture a child suffering from abuse either mental ,physical , or sexual.

What if this child or person took on so much negative emotion that their spirit literally died or developed into the “seed of lucifer”

Then we would formally grow up with an alternative personality a work of evil, some may be more concious to it and some may not be aware of it at all. what if it was only triggered by anger or hate or something sinful, something maybe stemming from abuse? now what if something gave you a nickname when you acted in a certain way? would you choose good or evil?

Evil begets evil. I think the more time spent in the company of evil thoughts the deeper the evil will grow.

This could explain many peoples actions as they are influneced by thoughts coming from the devil, unaware that they are being fed lies.

and what if there were a cure to this, …a “baptismal treatment” what if we could annoit ourselves holy in the name of god and free our will power the one thing god did send us to earth with over every other living thing.

Then as long as we followed the ten commandments we would be cured of an unholy life.

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What if the part where the term “schizophrenia” coins in is how this might actually operate down on the level where the thought is first created, perhaps in more serious cases the thoughts could transverse between good and evil more frequently.

Just curious but have any of the contributors to this thread come across the writings of Deleuze (Anti-Oedipus, 1000 Plateaus), Canguilhem (the Normal and the Pathological), Foucault (Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish), or Agamben (Homo Sacer)? In all of these we have a more or less pointed redefinition of the term ‘schizophrenia’ as well as an evaluation/critique of the means by which this term is genrated and deployed in a particular millieu.

I don’t mean to hijack the site with this response if I am doing it I apologize. I have been diagnosed with Schizophrenia for about 4 years if any one has any questions about it. You can send the questions to my email address at koga23@sbcglobal.net I do not know if you can post them on here.

Well, it has been my observation that most individuals who are diagnosed as being “mad” are highly intelligent, spiritual individuals. Now, I am sure all of you are knowledgeable about all of the theories about schizophrenia, but I am going to put this one to you anyway. :laughing:

What if these so-called “insane” individuals are in-tune to something that we are completely ignorant of? I mean, it seems to me that their awareness of what is really going on is higher than the rest of us.

I cannot comment on schizophrenia, but I know those who suffer from depression have a sharp, penetrating insight into human consciousness and societal structures.

I am also diagnosed as schitzophrenic (as well is suffering from chronic depression). Having both seen the movie A Beautiful Mind as well as read the book on which it was based, I say the movie was somewhat sensationalized and I found the book more true to fact. I recommend reading it for anyone interested in schitzophrenia.

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Why is a schizophrenic more in touch with God than anyone else? I don’t understand what makes you feel that way.

What is God anyways?

I put forth this supposition, which will attempt to generalize what you’re saying.

Anyone who moves into another state of conciousness; schizophrenia, depression, incarceration (prison), drug induced hallucination, war, cultural shift (moving from one culture to a vastly different one ie, a tribe in Africa to a house in the suburbs), and then returns into the shared concisouness that we have here, will be insightful about what our shared conciousness is from having been removed from it and then integrated back into it.

I’m schizophrenic and I don’t belive in God. I have hallucinations and visions and revelatory-type thought. But God is a crude answer. I have experienced much that a less critical, more gullible person would have considered to be God but have not been fooled.

The symptoms I listed cannot be cured by ‘being happy’. What is needed is knowledge, understanding and medication.

Actually, Deleuze, Guattari (remember, he wrote those two books too!) and Foucault are my three favourite authors, after Nietzsche.