could schizophrenics be tapping into something like genetic memories or is there more to it. post your opinions here.
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Thu, December 30, 2004 - 7:55 AMwhat exactly causes the hallucinations? malfunctioning of the brain, right? we know the symptoms and the signs but not the cause. what's your theory? -
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Sat, January 15, 2005 - 4:21 PMwell, it's all chemical. even when its all mental, it is still all chemical. so some particular combination of chemicals take a certain path in each of our lives and thus we are individuals. some chemical combinations, once occurring, are irreverseable. what am i trying to say ? are hallucinations and schizo so bad ? yes, sometimes they are ? -
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Thu, January 20, 2005 - 10:01 PMMy mother has schizophrenia. I sometimes wonder if her brain is capable of seeing things that "normal" brains just can't comprehend. The brain is still a mystery in so many ways. Scientists cannot find "who" is in there running everything. Perhaps, in order to function and survive, normal brains block out things that are too disturbing, but schizophrenics are being bombarded my everything. Maybe hallucinations are the brains way of interpreting these things...describing them as things they have known or seen.
Early native Americans considered schizophrenics to be Prophets. I tell my mother that some times hoping that she'll accept her "disease" in order to be able to live with it.
Funny (or not, really), she said to me "The doctors have me on medication for hallucinations...but I don't HAVE hallucinations".
I say "Mom, that's cuz the meds are working." -
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Fri, January 21, 2005 - 8:12 PMi know many people who would be diagnosed as schizophrenic if a psychiatrist got ahold of them. they are deep into this kind of thing too. some of it i believe and some i don't. but does believing in it make you aware of the unknown? because you believe that it is real does it make you psychic or insane? maybe a little of both. maybe neither. who knows really except the person experiencing it? it's up to them to decide what is real and what is not. however we do have a common belief in what we percieve to be real and those outside of that belief...well, who knows. only they do.
all we can do is listen to schizophrenics be there for them when they need help. -
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Fri, January 21, 2005 - 10:44 PMThe problem is, they are addicted to the "high" they get when not on meds, and it makes it very difficult for them to function in the world we are living in, whether it's "real" or "imagined"...the majority of people on this planet don't hear voices or see visions "when no one is there". A schizophrenic off of meds is like a person being on LSD constantly...sometimes they like it, sometimes they can be a danger to themselves and others.
My mother tried to commit suicide at least twice that I can remember, and once she almost succeeded because, according to her, she heard voices telling her to do so.
When she was on her medication, she would speak of her "visions" the same way a person might describe a bad trip (or a good trip) on LSD once they were sober.
Is it up for me to decide if someone or something was telling her to commit suicide? Was it a demon? I don't know. All I know is, the medication blocked those voices out and kept her from harming herself or others. -
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Sun, May 29, 2005 - 8:38 PMWhat you are really getting at is "What is the nature of reality?" Does reality exist or do we simply have an agreed upon concept of what "reality" is? Is that not the real meaning of socialization? Thomas Szasz says that there is no mental illness, only problems in living. Is that true? Can something as devastating as schizophrenia be reduced to a "problem in living"? Is it really more complex that this? Are we all merely co-conspirators is a global "Emperor's New Clothes"?
If we are to be reduced to the sum total of our neurotransmitters and other assorted chemicals, how can we possibly explain the culpability of a serial killer? How can they shoulder guilt for a handful of screwy chemicals and so be punished?
Ok. There. Now discuss.
Just kidding. I know that I have thrown a whole lot of stuff out there. I am totally into a discussion. Anyone up for it?
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Tue, June 21, 2005 - 11:37 PMas far as i understand schizophrenia so far the brain chemical that is being released is called dopamine and that is why they get high while hallucinating. it's a stimulant and it's the same chemical that is being released during the smoking of a cigarette which is why a lot of schizophrenics smoke. not only is it a high but the people actually feel smarter while off of their meds or while smoking. as for serial killers, i don't think they should be associated with the schizophrenics because really they are two separate chemicals being released although i'm not sure what the serial killer's chemicals are i find that most people who are schizophrenic are relatively harmless. they are too high to actually do the killing. most of them can't even function. and the deaths caused by schizophrenics are usually delusionally influenced.
i guess that's all i have for now.
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Tue, June 21, 2005 - 11:42 PMi feel i should clarify something. i said that most schizophreics can't function. what i meant to say was that most schiozphrenics off of meds can't function well. please don't take offense. thank you.
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Re: schizophrenia
Wed, June 22, 2005 - 1:48 AMAllow me to clarify what I was saying. I in NO WAY was making an association between serial killers and schizophrenics other than asking a question about everything being completely attributed to brain chemicals. One might deduce from another reading of my post that I am asserting just the opposite. I would be the last person to make that kind of equation.
Schizophrenia is a devastating disease. How much potential is lost as a result? How it robs those afflicted. Lola, it must be very heavy sometimes to deal with your mom, when in fact her feeling better is what makes her not want to take her meds which then makes her not want to take her meds, and so on. I think it's tragic. Simply tragic.
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