Originally posted by jonnywhite
I'm OCPD. I haven't been officially diagnosed, but I think I have it. I'm veyr detail oriented and can't focus on the broader picture. I might also have auspergers or a autism-spectrum disorder.

edit on 3-10-2012 by jonnywhite because: (no reason given)

I'm veyr detail oriented..........Yeah sure.

the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"

Whenever I am faced with my own emotional issues, I remind myself of this quote by Jack Kerouac, cause it comforts me to know, inspite of my emotional issues, there is a part of the maddness that is beautiful. Accepting myself means accepting all of me....even the crazy part of me.

Not that I am okay with having emotional problems, I would rather not have them, but sometimes, it is in my moments of emotional meltdown that I have my best inspiration, best ideas and do my best work. There is that crazy part of me that has a purpose too.

I'd like to think in a SHTF scenario, perhaps it's that crazy part of you that might be the very thing that will save you....who knows? It guess it all depends on the kind of mental illness, the degree of it and the given situations you'd find yourself in.

Something is very wrong with our food. Most know this to a degree, but not quite as well as we all should. Still a mystery to me as to what exactly it is, but I have my theories and workarounds.

I was once diagnosed schizophrenic and have recovered greatly through various traditional and non-orthodox means. I have spent upwards of $3000 dollars in the past 5 years trying to combat side effects from medication with alternative means, which I have accomplished quite well, and to fight symptoms themselves. Anyways, here is what I have realized for my body and mind.

Most of the problems associated with my illness were caused by a malfunctioning liver. Without realizing it at the time, my liver was quite swollen. A vegetarian diet for 8 months allowed my liver to digest the fatty accumulation that had somehow happened. I am not and was not fat, my liver was overloaded with something I know that for sure, what exactly - who knows, but I remarked one day 3 or so months into vegetarian diet, when i pulled my head back as far as I could and looked down my chest, and noticed my liver area was skinnier, and realized previously it was swollen. I didn't lose any body weight when I went vegetarian at all, in fact probably was bloated.

Anyways, so I did that and slowly my mental state was returning to the more normal relaxed person I was before I ever lost it. Not anxious around others unless I wanted to be, and just in general, more in control of myself.

The next successful thing I did to help my mental state was take an essential amino acid blend. Not protein powder, not the non essential aminos, the 9 (8 or 9 - its debatable) essentials, and not mega-doses either. This coupled with a low protein diet gave my body the best form of protein available. Free form protein building blocks, already broken down and stripped of all the non-essential amino acids that my body could produce on its own from the essentials, as needed and in proportion to my body's own self regulating mechanisms.

I've tried it all, b3 mega-doses, isolated non-essential aminos (gaba taurine etc etc), herbs (skull cap, combinations), vitamins and minerals, and whatever. Like I said i spent more than $3000 dollars on these things searching for the magic bullet and never really found it. The key is to treat the body as a whole, not to treat the brain. The brain is usually fine if you can walk straight and move you extremities and whatnot. If the liver is in good shape then your digestion will be fine, elimination will work, repair will work, sleep will be better, etc etc.

So to sum it up, go on a low protein diet to allow your body to make use of what it already has and really needs and not to flood it, after a few months or so of your body will have adapted to a different diet, take the essential aminos that will provide the basic nutrition. Do that for a few months, wait till you start craving meat again, and go back on. Rotate your diet. Less is more. Take away before you add. Good luck

The deeper question is, 100,000,000 Americans take psychotropic drugs of some sort.

When Israel attacks Iran, and Iran blocks the strait of Hormuz, and 35% of the worlds daily oil supply is interrupted, and the economy collapses because of it, and oil and gas prices skyrocket, and transportation costs skyrocket, and food prices and medications skyrocket, how will people be able to AFFORD or even get the medications they need???

Will their ever be interruptions in the supply?

One interruption of any sort would unleash a wave of millions of chemically unbalanced people swept up in some psychotic state of mind.

I'm always reminded of a quote of CG Jung in his Aion lectures when I think about this scenario:

Loss of roots and lack of tradition neuroticize the masses and prepare them for collective hysteria. Collective hysteria calls for collective therapy, which consists of abolition of liberty and terrorization. Where rationalistic materialism holds sway, states tend to develop less into prisons than into lunatic asylums - Carl Jung, Aion Lectures, The psychology of Christian Alchemical Symbolism

As for the question itself, ohh.. undoubtedly, not only will the people who are already anxious and neurotic probably going to worsen, but those who have been sheltered from such feeling and thinking their whole lives will likely begin to feel anxious and depressed and stressed to the point of exhaustion themselves.

Jung was undoubtedly right in pointing out the effect of rationalistic materialism on peoples psyche.

Some people, depending on their temperament will either: resort to crime, become agitated, anxious, and possibly lose control of themselves, commit suicide, or turn to religion.

And then there will be those few too proud in their intellectual and mental prowess to turn to religion, who will do fine on their own without any spiritual mooring.