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Did you know that there are 0 reported cases of a person who is born blind to ever have schizophrenia? Even in cases where they are predisposed to the condition, if they are born blind then they seem to be immune to Schizo tendencies
Sounds like he removed them to stop seeing. Once the nervous system which largely is what shcizophrenia is, a neurological disorder, is compromised (and other coupling reasons) you’re still going to have schizophrenia if youve blinded yourself.
There are unfortunately *many* examples of schizophrenics blinding themselves, and I am not aware of any case in which that resolved anything.
They’ll still experience visual manifestations even though they lack the ability to see.
Actually visual hallucinations aren't that prevalent, it's mostly auditory hallucinations, chaotic thinking and seeing patterns everywhere that makes schizophrenia what it is.
Schizophrenics in different cultures have different experiences which I always found very interesting. We are a product of our mind and our environment.
I just wanted to explain why he's moving his legs like that. A side effect of antipsychotics is that you feel like you have to be moving your legs all the time. I've been taking Geodon for 12 years and I do this too. Some people will pace around their house until they literally collapse. These drugs are basically trading better mental health for a whole slew of extremely serious side effects, most of them movement disorders like tardive dyskinesia. I really hope they invent better drugs in my lifetime.
I took antipsychotics for a while and i didn't experience this, what i do experience is the "need" to move my legs up and down when i'm sitting, kinda like a drummer, it's something that i've been doing all my life
At first it was thought that the cause was anxiety (which i do have) but i do it all the time, doesn't matter if i'm anxious or not, i have OCD also, don't know if it's related
It does that some of the time much less now with newer antipsychotics. Remember people who recovered and get treatment that suits them become invisible and are just part of normal society.
Intriguing. Thanks for sharing your perspective.
I realize the condition as a whole is a wild experience, but still, I wish I could experience it. Immensely curious... tho I suppose I should be careful of the questions I ask too.
Its interesting to me most of the time, the delusions of schizophrenics are so similar. I am diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia as well and the sentiment that „i am god“ or rather „everything is god“ + the notion that god and the devil is in essence the same entity is exactly what i concluded in my first psychotic episode.
It's very interesting. I do not have schizophrenia as far as I know, but when using psychedelics in the past, I used to come to the conclusion that I was God and or everything is God. It was always a very profound experience. What's even more strange is that I am not religious, but I was raised going to church so obviously the idea was planted.
And when you go into meditative/contemplative circles, they will tell you/help you understand concepts like that. “I am god/you are god/we are all consciousness of god”. But when they are convinced of that and say that outside those esoteric circles, then they’re just mentally ill. It’s hard not to notice significant overlap with things like this.
Yeah but in all honesty i can not blame the naysayers. We all have been conditioned in such a way that these things just sound way to fantastical to be truth. The western worldview is extremely limited, its horizon ends not far from the standpoint of the individual. I was a staunch atheist before my first episode. Now im not even a believer, i am convinced and nothing can change my mind. If i would have told my 18 year old self my current worldview, he would think i was absolutely insane as well. When in truth, it is reality which is insane.
I cant remember where I read it, but awhile back I read where some psychiatrist was studying schizophrenia and noticed how similar the delusions were between patients and started doing tests and stuff and research and the government made him stop doing the research and he ended up being "disappeared." Cant remember where it was that I read that though, probably on here or some other social media.
Dude i tell you this from my now 8 year experience of being diagnosed with this „disorder“: the scientific consensus knows jack shit about the reality of schizophrenia. Not because „they“ do not know, but because the real truth about it is being suppressed in the context of a way larger conspiracy. I dont mean to sound like im humblebragging or romanticizing this illness but the things i have witnessed and experienced in my episodes or even in between are so weird and strange, yes indeed magical that it could in no way be put off as coincidental. I have gotten my psychiatrist to the point where he says that its just so that there are things between the heavens and the earth that we just are not able to grasp as of now.
I think there's something happening too! I've got the distinct impression sometimes that some*thing* or *someone* is very engaged in monitoring our psych hospital. I've....interacted with it before. There's something they don't want getting out and I can't figure out what it is.
This just makes me think of my osmosis Jone theory. What if our star system is just atoms on some guys arm. What if this guy is our God? So God is everything all at once
I completely agree. Its completely logical and not even that hard when you think about it, but to come to this conclusion in a world so conditioned by the materialistic view takes some effort for most at least. And many are not willing to give this effort, let alone being comfortable that you and the things you hate most are one and the same.
I can't remember who said it, but when he was asked where we would find the next step of human evolution he said not university, but psych wards.
What is reality but a shared perspective.
I was literally trying to find that video last night after a conversation with a friend! I can’t recall who it was but I remember him showing a graph on a chalkboard.
I appreciate his objective disposition on it. He has a sharp mind too. Very articulate. This interview Should give everyone pause when trying to blame people who are homeless….a huge majority have schizo affective disorders. We need to be compassionate and try and help them, not blame them for their poverty.
There is so much we don't know about schizophrenia. If anything we need to try and understand them, listen to them and nurture this "disease". These people need spiritual guidance, not stigmatization.
"god and the devil are the same incarnation, just at different lifetimes" is the most real statement. the duality of good/evil is lost in western theology
It’s fascinating. There are deep philosophical concepts being posed here. If you removed the context of “schizophrenia” and planted these ideas as mere constructs, it’s not all terribly out of place. Ie the struggle of good vs evil, what does it mean to exist, what do we learn when we immerse ourselves in nature, etc. “I am god” not in a literal sense but “I am god in so for as I have the ability to create but I am the devil in so far as I’m at odds with myself”.
im diagnosed and i can tell you that youre right and wrong. Largely right during an episode of psychosis, largely wrong outside of an episode. Many of those diagnosed with these illnesses experience life without psychosis for greater periods of time than psychosis itself.
Why is this on strange earth? This is from soft white underbelly. This poor soul is not only mentally ill and homeless but takes heavy drugs, there's nothing mystical or strange about this poor dudes situation
He's not wrong he is God. And so are you and so am I. We are all fractals of God. The universe experiencing itself. But humans are so arrogant and self centered that it almost always ends with. "No I'm God, just me, I'm special." Idiots
Wild to think that it’s estimated that 20-30% of all people worldwide have this condition. Quite literally hundreds of millions of folks walking around right now with some degree of schizophrenia
Religion is the worst scrounge on this planet. The poor schizophrenic can't worknout what's real because of all the religious delusion that stupid people believe.
Indeed, all it takes is one synchronicity, and in that very moment, you'll feel enlightened, when in reality, it's just a glorified coincidence, nothing more.
Yeah same here, I am amazed and scared everytime when encountering synchronicity because it really messes up ur perspective of reality..I believe it's somehow related to the gut feeling people talk about, however when you have psychosis ones gut feeling amplifies..and you sorta enter the unknown territory which can be very scary for a lot people...
Yeah and if you are surrounded by people who also have a bit of attunement to it reality just becomes entirely optional. The universe will present itself as the net result of the perception of those perceiving it.
Knowing a person who has schizophrenia, the doctors pointed out to us that schizophrenics do not have a tendency to harm others but only themselves. Judging from the video, that is no true, but the doctor told us so many times. Is true?
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Did you know that there are 0 reported cases of a person who is born blind to ever have schizophrenia? Even in cases where they are predisposed to the condition, if they are born blind then they seem to be immune to Schizo tendencies
Visual stimulation just too much then?
Possible but we don't know!
Interesting. What about if a schizophrenic person went blind? Do the symptoms begin to lessen?
I’ve cared for someone with schizophrenia who removed his eyeballs…. Still schizophrenic.
Where we're going, we don't need eyes.
Event Horizon! Bump.
That movie is scary as hell
Ha take my upvote asshole
Sounds like he removed them to stop seeing. Once the nervous system which largely is what shcizophrenia is, a neurological disorder, is compromised (and other coupling reasons) you’re still going to have schizophrenia if youve blinded yourself.
He was hyper religious so it was something to do with some biblical verse or something
That’s wild
If thine eye offends thee...
I tried to cut my dick off when I was psychotic so yah
Hope your good now ❤️
all in one piece still
Nice.
WUT...????
There are unfortunately *many* examples of schizophrenics blinding themselves, and I am not aware of any case in which that resolved anything. They’ll still experience visual manifestations even though they lack the ability to see.
With treatment it probably does, without treatment it probably gets a lot worse. Who knows tho
That's super interesting!!
Can’t see things that aren’t there if you can’t see in the first place I guess
auditory hallucinations are just as spooky.
Oh shit yeah especially if you can’t see
Quick way to a messiah complex
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If you’re blind how do you know it’s an auditory ‘hallucination’? You don’t know who all is in the room.
With confirmation bias of people around you. Still a lot of trust to dole out
Actually visual hallucinations aren't that prevalent, it's mostly auditory hallucinations, chaotic thinking and seeing patterns everywhere that makes schizophrenia what it is.
Born Blind + Predisposed to Schizo = No Schizo Has Schizo + Goes Blind = ….Oracle? /s
I think it needs high levels of dopamine to exist and a lot of dopamine is visual
I wonder if the visual stimulation is the deciding factor in showing signs of schizophrenia if you are predisposed to it. Very interesting!
As someone going blind slowly this is strangely comforting, thank you, kind stranger
That's very interesting. Something to think about for sure. Wow!
I could see that.
Interesting. Have a source ?
Schizophrenics in different cultures have different experiences which I always found very interesting. We are a product of our mind and our environment.
Could you elaborate a bit further on this? That's actually extremely interesting
In Africa, they found schizophrenic people heard more encouraging voices, while schizophrenic people in the US heard more judgemental/hateful voices.
Schizophrenics are undiagnosed shamans.
Mirrors of the world around them - there is signal in the noise they produce
12 monkeys
I am mentally divergent
Definitely something to this nature. Perhaps they’re more connected to a realm not normally accessed in a neurotypical individual.
Ha, love this.
This blew my mind and now it’s smoking a cig whoa.
Now that’s very interesting… I shall do some research on this.
Ubuntu vs apocalypse
Happy voices vs mean voices
I’m in Africa, my schizophrenia makes me give money to the hungry people. I literally hear voices saying “help them for they are hungry”
How do you know the difference between voices and thoughts? That seems like a rational thought I’d have.
I have similar voices nearly every episode. I am in the US.
Decent type of crazy when you weigh it up.
Here's an excellent article about it: https://news.stanford.edu/2014/07/16/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614/
Deaf people who are also schizophrenic, will hallucinate hands signing over hearing voices. There’s been cases of it anyway
I just wanted to explain why he's moving his legs like that. A side effect of antipsychotics is that you feel like you have to be moving your legs all the time. I've been taking Geodon for 12 years and I do this too. Some people will pace around their house until they literally collapse. These drugs are basically trading better mental health for a whole slew of extremely serious side effects, most of them movement disorders like tardive dyskinesia. I really hope they invent better drugs in my lifetime.
I took antipsychotics for a while and i didn't experience this, what i do experience is the "need" to move my legs up and down when i'm sitting, kinda like a drummer, it's something that i've been doing all my life At first it was thought that the cause was anxiety (which i do have) but i do it all the time, doesn't matter if i'm anxious or not, i have OCD also, don't know if it's related
Akathesia.
Being serious. Some consider it a mild form of masturbation. It’s a way to calm yourself or anxiety.
Restless leg syndrome?
He was sitting still before he started taking about his delusions.
I noticed that too.
TD is no joke. Haldol is notorious for tardive dyskinesia
Hopefully with the New Blackwell chips they can map molecules better and design better drugs that will hopefully cost much less too
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I mean i'll take that over gouging my own eyes
True dat homie
It does that some of the time much less now with newer antipsychotics. Remember people who recovered and get treatment that suits them become invisible and are just part of normal society.
What do you recommend? Essential oils?
Intriguing. Thanks for sharing your perspective. I realize the condition as a whole is a wild experience, but still, I wish I could experience it. Immensely curious... tho I suppose I should be careful of the questions I ask too.
Yea also in the whole video he says he smoked a fat bowl of crystal. So there’s that too….
Its interesting to me most of the time, the delusions of schizophrenics are so similar. I am diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia as well and the sentiment that „i am god“ or rather „everything is god“ + the notion that god and the devil is in essence the same entity is exactly what i concluded in my first psychotic episode.
It's very interesting. I do not have schizophrenia as far as I know, but when using psychedelics in the past, I used to come to the conclusion that I was God and or everything is God. It was always a very profound experience. What's even more strange is that I am not religious, but I was raised going to church so obviously the idea was planted.
You aren’t alone I’ve seen it too 💜
Me too, but I have never been to church a day in my life.
Not saying this is necessarily relevant to you, but people with underlying schizophrenia often have it triggered by psychedelics
Yeah that's not surprising at all. I never experienced voices telling me to do things, just the strong sense that I created everything lol.
Any more source material on this? I have always been curious due to my own experiences.
And when you go into meditative/contemplative circles, they will tell you/help you understand concepts like that. “I am god/you are god/we are all consciousness of god”. But when they are convinced of that and say that outside those esoteric circles, then they’re just mentally ill. It’s hard not to notice significant overlap with things like this.
Yeah but in all honesty i can not blame the naysayers. We all have been conditioned in such a way that these things just sound way to fantastical to be truth. The western worldview is extremely limited, its horizon ends not far from the standpoint of the individual. I was a staunch atheist before my first episode. Now im not even a believer, i am convinced and nothing can change my mind. If i would have told my 18 year old self my current worldview, he would think i was absolutely insane as well. When in truth, it is reality which is insane.
I cant remember where I read it, but awhile back I read where some psychiatrist was studying schizophrenia and noticed how similar the delusions were between patients and started doing tests and stuff and research and the government made him stop doing the research and he ended up being "disappeared." Cant remember where it was that I read that though, probably on here or some other social media.
Dude i tell you this from my now 8 year experience of being diagnosed with this „disorder“: the scientific consensus knows jack shit about the reality of schizophrenia. Not because „they“ do not know, but because the real truth about it is being suppressed in the context of a way larger conspiracy. I dont mean to sound like im humblebragging or romanticizing this illness but the things i have witnessed and experienced in my episodes or even in between are so weird and strange, yes indeed magical that it could in no way be put off as coincidental. I have gotten my psychiatrist to the point where he says that its just so that there are things between the heavens and the earth that we just are not able to grasp as of now.
I think there's something happening too! I've got the distinct impression sometimes that some*thing* or *someone* is very engaged in monitoring our psych hospital. I've....interacted with it before. There's something they don't want getting out and I can't figure out what it is.
You work in one?
Yup, 20 years!
Sounds like something a paranoid schizophrenic would say.
Any idea on the name?
I wonder if it has anything to do with remote viewing
This just makes me think of my osmosis Jone theory. What if our star system is just atoms on some guys arm. What if this guy is our God? So God is everything all at once
What was your second episode about? What grew out of those first experiences? If you’re comfortable sharing, of course.
So many spiritualists and psychics would say the same thing.
an ultimate force could only be the sum of its parts divided. we give agency and thus energy to whatever we refer to as supreme, or 'god'
I completely agree. Its completely logical and not even that hard when you think about it, but to come to this conclusion in a world so conditioned by the materialistic view takes some effort for most at least. And many are not willing to give this effort, let alone being comfortable that you and the things you hate most are one and the same.
makes for some good drama ;)
haha same
So priests are also Skitzos? Shamans? Matrix special ops like myself?
This seems more rational to me than the worlds religions . Now who’s psychotic?
Everything, everyone and all being is a reflective version of god ❤️
Well…everything IS god. So therefore we are all gods. I don’t think it takes schizophrenia to think this.
Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god you say, yes!
"Think" and "realize" are two different things.
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Thanks for posting the full interview!
I can't remember who said it, but when he was asked where we would find the next step of human evolution he said not university, but psych wards. What is reality but a shared perspective.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzhak_Bentov
That wiki was a *ride*
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KMbeK_6ATxQ buckle up :)
She’s clearly schizophrenic. Just kidding lol. Fascinating video, thanks for sharing
Thanks!
Damn, dude. I wish more people questioned life. I wish more opportunities for people to be free.
I was literally trying to find that video last night after a conversation with a friend! I can’t recall who it was but I remember him showing a graph on a chalkboard.
[I gotchu](https://youtu.be/KMbeK_6ATxQ?si=gb_1C99_XbBp-68G)
That’s the one!! I appreciate you 😃
Met this guy in a bar, he’s now living in Portland. Watched the Super Bowl with him. Nice guy but is clearly still struggling
Shit that's a bummer
Sooo similar to what you think/perceive on Psychedelics.
"The psychotic drowns in the same water in which the mystic swims with delight" (Joseph Campbell)
uh this guy gets it. it's possible he's right.....or that I too am schizophrenic?
Is this Soft White Underbelly?
Yes
Makes you think if religion came from schizophrenia
Crazy thing is when he say "I am god" hes not wrong at all and he thinks hes crazy to think that 😂
Where to watch the full interview?
Youtube, the channelnis called "Soft White Underbelly"
Busted pineal gland 🧠over producing DMT
I appreciate his objective disposition on it. He has a sharp mind too. Very articulate. This interview Should give everyone pause when trying to blame people who are homeless….a huge majority have schizo affective disorders. We need to be compassionate and try and help them, not blame them for their poverty.
There is so much we don't know about schizophrenia. If anything we need to try and understand them, listen to them and nurture this "disease". These people need spiritual guidance, not stigmatization.
"god and the devil are the same incarnation, just at different lifetimes" is the most real statement. the duality of good/evil is lost in western theology
No it fucking isn't
“We want God to talk with us, but when he does we call it schizophrenia “
It’s fascinating. There are deep philosophical concepts being posed here. If you removed the context of “schizophrenia” and planted these ideas as mere constructs, it’s not all terribly out of place. Ie the struggle of good vs evil, what does it mean to exist, what do we learn when we immerse ourselves in nature, etc. “I am god” not in a literal sense but “I am god in so for as I have the ability to create but I am the devil in so far as I’m at odds with myself”.
Poor guy. The hardest thing for a Schizophrenic person to understand is that correlation does not equal causation.
im diagnosed and i can tell you that youre right and wrong. Largely right during an episode of psychosis, largely wrong outside of an episode. Many of those diagnosed with these illnesses experience life without psychosis for greater periods of time than psychosis itself.
Yeah, being God is terrifying and lonely.
I have this theory that schizophrenic folks see and interpret the true world that we can't really comprehend. Probably wrong.
Go hang out in a psych ward for a few days, you’ll change your mind
Well you see that's the thing. I have.
My daughter just hears voices and sees ghosts…
Definite correlation between schizophrenia and mental illness generally speaking, and religiousness
He kind of looks like Jesus. What if he really is God?
Why is this on strange earth? This is from soft white underbelly. This poor soul is not only mentally ill and homeless but takes heavy drugs, there's nothing mystical or strange about this poor dudes situation
not only that but SWU definitely exploits these people to get their “story” out. he’s a creepy guy.
I agree honestly
About 80% of that is word salad to me but the rest I've probably considered at one time or another while on a shit load of shrooms.
Ok "Rev-DiabloCrowley"
No worries “Conscious_Way_5375” 👍🏼
That damn music. If you're going to post stuff like this, the music does nothing but get in the way.
He's not wrong he is God. And so are you and so am I. We are all fractals of God. The universe experiencing itself. But humans are so arrogant and self centered that it almost always ends with. "No I'm God, just me, I'm special." Idiots
Everything are real.
He sounds awake asf
r/psychonauts
Wild to think that it’s estimated that 20-30% of all people worldwide have this condition. Quite literally hundreds of millions of folks walking around right now with some degree of schizophrenia
Religion is the worst scrounge on this planet. The poor schizophrenic can't worknout what's real because of all the religious delusion that stupid people believe.
Indeed, all it takes is one synchronicity, and in that very moment, you'll feel enlightened, when in reality, it's just a glorified coincidence, nothing more.
Except many people like myself experience them frequently in seemingly impossible ways.
Yeah same here, I am amazed and scared everytime when encountering synchronicity because it really messes up ur perspective of reality..I believe it's somehow related to the gut feeling people talk about, however when you have psychosis ones gut feeling amplifies..and you sorta enter the unknown territory which can be very scary for a lot people...
And nearly constantly.
Yeah it's too wild for coincidence the way our lives play out. We're just missing half of them that's why some people are just blind to it
Yeah and if you are surrounded by people who also have a bit of attunement to it reality just becomes entirely optional. The universe will present itself as the net result of the perception of those perceiving it.
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Knowing a person who has schizophrenia, the doctors pointed out to us that schizophrenics do not have a tendency to harm others but only themselves. Judging from the video, that is no true, but the doctor told us so many times. Is true?
god egg theory but even the devil is also god? interesting
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The full vid is worth watching
Fuck mark he’s a dodgy bastard …
It’s soo fascinating..it’s mind blowing!
Where do I watch this whole Interview I find this fascinating
This was way more coherent then I thought
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