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Originally posted by Hijinx
Etc etc. The list is enormous.
Originally posted by Variable
If you suffer from it I am truly sorry, but schizophrenia suffers are simply broken minds. When you have millions of people, some of them will be born broken. That's the way evolution works, sometimes it makes people who don't work right.
Originally posted by rickymouse
If a person can't ACT normal around someone who has authority over them than they have a problem. If a person can't ACT normal around others they cannot control their Schizophrenia and need to either start smoking tobacco or see a doctor to get some meds. The meds probably have worse side effects than the cigarettes because they effect the p450 enzymes usually and this restricts detoxing by the liver many times.
Originally posted by rickymouse
If a person can't ACT normal around someone who has authority over them than they have a problem.
Originally posted by Grifter42
Originally posted by Hijinx
reply to post by Grifter42
Considering schizophrenics themselves describe their hallucinations as grossly violent, unpleasant encouraging of self harm/harm to others, or belittling to the sufferer I would say no. The government is not lying. Schizophrenia is no joke, it is currently one of the least understood psychological disorders.
Perhaps these violent "hallucinations" are the product of malevolent entities manipulating the human mind.
Call them devils, demons, aliens, or what ever you like. The end result is the same.
Perhaps it is one of the least understood disorders because it cannot be understood with conventional science?
Originally posted by theMediator
Originally posted by Hijinx
Etc etc. The list is enormous.
In fact, it's so enormous, they don't really have a clue what they are messing with. But they do have pills for it!
The OP wasn't that far off when he mentioned demons.
My gf worked in a mental hospital for a while and she often talked to me about a patient she was taking care of. The more she talked about the patient, the more it was clear that it was possession. The patient said how satan was constantly talking to her and many other weird things. When she had lucid moments, she said she was possessed and that she wasn't like that before. 30 something year old doctor and musician, she had a great life till her husband died. After that, she went crazy.
I am not saying that all schizophrenics are possessed but it doesn't feel less tangible an idea than chemical imbalances.
If we follow the money and acknowledge that they don't really know what mental illness is, we can easily come to the conclusion that they have no idea what they are doing/treating.
Originally posted by OccamsRazor04
Well then Obama is a Demon, because one of our Schizo patients talks to him and his daughters all the time! Funny how if it's demons and not chemical imbalances that medications work.
Originally posted by BrianFlanders
Originally posted by rickymouse
If a person can't ACT normal around someone who has authority over them than they have a problem.
People are not supposed to have authority over you unless you are a child. This is the problem with our society. People have completely given themselves over to authoritarianism to the point to where they don't even know there's any other way to live.
At some point, yes. Mental illness exists. But if you call it mental illness if someone will not allow others to treat them like their dog, you have a bizarre definition of mental illness.
See sluggish schizophrenia for an explanation of my points.
Originally posted by OccamsRazor04
Well then Obama is a Demon, because one of our Schizo patients talks to him and his daughters all the time! Funny how if it's demons and not chemical imbalances that medications work.