mysticwarrior a dit:
it comes from not questioning one's own thought processes in a critical manner
That's what i thought. The guy i meet, couldn't think critical or logical. It also happend to the other guys i knew. They all started to believe there own fairytale, and everyone who tried to warn them all got a punch in there face.
Hi
about 1%of the population is sensetive for schizofrenia and it sounds like this is the case for that man you met. Its sounds like this for me because i have that deseas(among other mental illnesses) and my story kinda looks like what you saw happening to that man.
When i am psychotic logic fails for me because temperarly i cant get to that state of mind(while normal i love logic and make good use of it in conversations or thinking). Its like you cant lick your elbow you just wont reach it! And the fairy tales its real weird for me because i LIVED them, besides what i believed at the time i saw it happening and together with voices that go along that abnormal reality it cán be quit fairy like.
Its also hard for people with the desease i have to see that they are sick. That is pretty logical: 1 you dont want to see your sick
2 you live that "reality" so it IS your reality
3 there are lots of difrent sets of believes and so it becomes easy to think hey if people dont go allong with what i live im okay with that i'm not forcing my religion(or something like that)
I dont know maybe i'm just very lucky because i have days, months that i'm not ill and i can be myself(so it feels/seems)
And about the laughing for no reason i had/have that too. My dad noticed it and that was the first warning sign for him to think hey somethings not normal with my boy.
For me it was very logical; I fantasize allot and some of the stuff i come up with ís really really funny(for me it is, and also i cant reproduce these "jokes" i forget them just as quick) so funny you just have to laugh out loud. This is ofcourse abnormal because not any one does this. But at the same time i came up with a trick. Whenever they ask me(with a weird look on their face) "why are you laughing?" I just share something that makes me laugh and most of the time they agree with me and say yeah okay that ís funny! (but i harldy cant memorize what i was actualy laughing about)
But anyway 1% is sensetive for psychosis that means that about 60 million people experience these weird reallitys as "true". And i'm not talking about heavens, soul traveling and other worlds or anything, just a complete difrent perspective of the same world we all live in. When that perspective becomes so far from you bed*(as we say in holland) healthy people just cant relate to that so the defenition crazy acures.
This is what i wanted to share for now but questions are very welcome.
I have been diagnosed as a schizo for a year now and since than i try to be aware of what is normal and what is desease for me so i guess i can say i'm experienced(maybe not so but pretty) with that.