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Originally posted by GENERAL EYES
Those first five years were fun though - but schizophrenia remains a degenerative disease - over the years, the novelty wears off and some people find themselves completely isolated from normal, everyday experiences.
I wish you better luck than I had, and hope you don't blindly follow the voices down the rabbit hole too deeply....there are things down there than no one should ever have to experience.
Originally posted by Maj35t1cI2
Well, if you want to live your life thinking you're special just because you're mentally challenged, that's great. Just know that you are not intelligent just because you have a disorder, and if anything, it makes you alot less intelligent. Just because some people are math whizzes or something along those lines doesn't make them smart either. You may be good at one or two things specifically, but if you are not well rounded in more than those specific ways, you're still pretty useless.
[edit on 27-9-2009 by Maj35t1cI2]
Originally posted by HulaAnglers
reply to post by TheFaiThfulSkepTic
It is strange, but I just got the feeling you are channeling...who said you are schizophrenic...what is your life like...what is your personal daily experience? You seem to be quite sane - actually
Originally posted by TheFaiThfulSkepTic
Originally posted by Maj35t1cI2
Well, if you want to live your life thinking you're special just because you're mentally challenged, that's great. Just know that you are not intelligent just because you have a disorder, and if anything, it makes you alot less intelligent. Just because some people are math whizzes or something along those lines doesn't make them smart either. You may be good at one or two things specifically, but if you are not well rounded in more than those specific ways, you're still pretty useless.
[edit on 27-9-2009 by Maj35t1cI2]
Sounds like there are multiple hypocritcal statements on here. You are stating that you are angry because i am calling myself special. To be honest it sounds like you have personal insecurity issues. You have tend to compare people withs schizophrenia to people with Down Syndrome also. Many people have schizo, just some people handle it alot better than others.
Originally posted by pharaohmoan
I was convinced i was Schizophrenic for ages, i have been sectioned a few times too. Was I ill, yes to some extent. However I believe the reason for this was because i was unable to deal with the information stream of the new realisations I was making in my life, which included the sensing of external forces and energies in response to me and my actions. So due to the nature of the mind it went into meltdown, ie there was no structure to my thoughts and so they span out of control. So yes help was needed and I'm grateful i got it.
Now here is my theory. Schizophrenics are different not ill. I believe for the most part they are individuals that have had aspects of their mind turned on, this includes psychic powers, telepaphy etc. The problem is that in todays world such thoughts do not make sense, couple that with the rate that the new information and ideas often come in and you have inbalance. It is that inbalance that is the illness. Bear in mind however that were the imbalanced individual taught beforehand about the deeper aspects of reality, the symptons of madness would not have emerged in the first place. In fact I would go as far as to say Schizophrenia is a condition not an illness, the condition is that the information being processed by a Schizophrenic mind cannot find structure due to the social conditioning imprinted on the unprepared mind by modern society from a very early age. The result is a shock to the mind which then becomes unstable during its attempt to rationalise the thoughts/energies etc being interpreted by the mind which conflict with modern day ideas and ideals.
I have pursued many of the original thoughts and impulses i originally had when i was ill, and i can honestly say that much of what the Schizophrenic mind experiences is true to some degree. There is such a thing as psychic noise for example. We are all one or from a connected singularity so delusions of grandeur is often experienced because they are experiencing ancient energies and historical reconnections (hense the overload factor)
In all fareness I am gratefull for my experiences, i see them as necessary stumbles in my life i had to take in order to experiment with the truth. Now I have so much insight into what reality is about that paranormal experiences no longer faze me, and emotions no longer get out of control. Sure i get speechless now and again and a little scared but thats only because I sometimes channel energies that I am not fully ready for.
Originally posted by tgidkp
i relate very much to your OP description of the "thought process, but not competent in bringing it all forward" (or some such).
the first response you got, and the response i continue to get from the people around me in life is that i ought to seek help. to to be honest, i hold on to my craziness....i treasure it. i do not want to destroy it, i want to explore it more and more.
Originally posted by Nventual
Hi OP, you may be interested in the theory of us creating our own realities.
There are basic fundamentals that effect us all, but then there are things (like the encounter with the angel wings) that seem to be calling you out. I have these things happen to me too (not me having delusions where I'm an angel, but you get the idea).
Basically, everything YOU see and feel revolves around you. Everything I see and feel revolves around me. We are our own universes. Everyone else exists in the same way we do, only they see things that relate to them - not you. Get what I mean?
Originally posted by SchefSalad
reply to post by TheFaiThfulSkepTic
The farthest i can say is that you aren't alone. Perhaps the world is changing and some of us a part of it, some not so much. I won't say that im schizo because for me that title works as a great way for me to deny myself. You are not alone.
If you change the rules on what controls you, you will change the rules on what you can control.
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Originally posted by St Udio
yo, certified schizo here...
i only did it once, but i got tired of the helicopters following me,
the bloodhounds barking as they closed in on me,
the spies or Illuminati pushing me into a inescapable corner...
so i volunteer into a 29 day De-Tox center...lo & behold i get a involuntary but acceptable 6 month 'vacation' from the various fiends that stalk me...
until the Dr/Psychiatrist suddenly changes my meds. and i experience a drug/shock incident squarely/surely attriibutal to the 'new' dose of liquid RX.
And in several days... an actual court & judge legally allows me to be released
to my father-in-law's custody .....