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Mental Health Schizophrenia - A true illness or a Technologically influenced illness by design

They're all very good arguments, DA overload is bordering on ridicule.
How many neurotransmitter sites are there? How many dimensions are there? How much of the brain do we actually use?
Psychoactive chemicals, on the other hand ,do tend to trigger dormant areas.
Some people are disposed to such anomalies; it's not to say they aren't real.
People tend to have this notion that other entities will be a physical manifestation; science says there isn't a limit on counter dimensions that exist within our realm.
1-Dimension. best band, hopefully gone forever. We cannot comprehend a one dimensional point . . . it does exist though, albeit infinitesimally small on the quantum level.
 
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Schizophrenia is an umbrella term, or at least it appears that way to me. Until experts are able to go inside a persons mind and see what is exactly happening they will be left observing and trying to treat external symptoms or behaviors.
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Yes, it is. A lot of conditions that used to be considered separate and unrelated are now covered by the term "schizophrenia spectrum disorders". It's recognised that the symptoms that frequently result in a schizophrenia diagnosis may represent a number of loosely related conditions with vastly different treatment outcomes.
 
When I was in my early teens I was hospitalized and diagnosed with "schizophrenic tendencies". I believe they came up with this diagnosis through much of what I said. The humorous part of this to me is that much of what I said was spawned by the reality that I had been taking psychedelics for a year and I had spending quite a bit of time talking to trees.=D try saying that to psychiatrists and interns in a small town psyche ward in the 1970's. I have no doubt that I was mentally ill because the reason for my hospitalization was a suicide attempt. My definition of mental illness is not the extreme states that are very similar to the extreme states of being on a psychedelic; my definition of mental illness is losing one's internal balance. And I had certainly lost that.

But it was readily apparent to me at the ripe age of 15 that these doctors had absolutely nothing that was going to cure me, let alone help me heal (Thorazine? Haldol? For an unhappy and confused teenager? Who is the mentally ill person in this scenario?). I figured out what they wanted to hear and I said it. No more talking about my tree elders LOL.

Fast forward many, many years. I have been stable because I have worked very hard at creating stability. It's a relationship. It's an art. It is frustrating and fascinating. Psychedelics helped and over-use hurt--lesson learned. But the most therapeutic aspect of psychedelic experience for me was the portal opened between myself and nature. Nature is in fact our most powerful healer. To learn to be truly held by the world is a euphoric experience unequaled by any drug experience.

I think some of the most fascinating studies today about schizophrenia are the anthropological ones that look at how these extreme mental states are viewed by different cultures. I don't romanticize all mental illness as shamanism but neither do I discount the crossovers that occur. I am drawn to "crazy" people. Yes, they lead messier lives and they suffer their own delusions but they often have a greater clarity about the delusions that the 'normal' world takes as hard facts or reality. Trees, in fact, do talk. The fact that we humans have created a world that is eating itself alive and is killing us in the process seems to me directly related to our inability to listen to anything beyond our own species.

What we call madness has given us great art and beauty, great leaps in mathematics and science and greater insight into human capabilities in general; when we can begin to treat it in a way that recognizes the gifts while ameliorating the suffering rather than flattening and deadening the heart and mind with numbing drugs, I believe we can move past the sane vs insane see-saw mentality and begin to recognize the continuum we all exist on. Some of us being more on the tree end than others......=D<3
 
This is a very profound thread. Personally I don't talk to tree's; I personally like to talk to extractor fans. It's not a piss take at all; anything with an integrated circuit (an IC chip) is fair play.
What I realized though; it's not the technology that's the problem.... it's from within my mind; that's the access point.
The Subconscious is such a powerful master.
I'll say again; ask them a question that you don't know. Watch them trip over and over.
Then you'll know it is from within.
 
Wasted_talent said:
This is a very profound thread. Personally I don't talk to tree's; I personally like to talk to extractor fans. It's not a piss take at all; anything with an integrated circuit (an IC chip) is fair play.
What I realized though; it's not the technology that's the problem.... it's from within my mind; that's the access point.
The Subconscious is such a powerful master.
I'll say again; ask them a question that you don't know. Watch them trip over and over.
Then you'll know it is from within.
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That sounds pretty smart!
 
Actually this isn't a case in point. It's a ludicrous notion under the influence of sleep deprivation and fasting with around 300 mg's of 75% d-amp in stages of 30 to 50 mg's ingested orally.
Psychosis will certainly manifest, whether it is due to the substance, the lack of sleep, lack of eating or all in conjunction; it's still in question.
I read through the Wikipedia post on psychosis and it mentions the distortions on 3 different levels, the auditory, the visual or other peripheral factors. Then the brain processes this input under the Pathophysiology section as a two stage process.
I'm not an avid reader but am trying to learn. The body and brain does indeed send electrical pulses, there are higher dimension that most people don't have access to. To the best of my limited knowledge These beings are all around us in the same way a point becomes a line (one dimensional), then a triangle (2 dimensional), then three dimensions (our perception), then time (perceived, but under individual influence, or free will)
Under the guise of pretense and fitting in to someone else's preconceived notions; anti-psychotic drugs to force a person into 'normality' are misdirected.
 
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