On 27/02/2023 06:39, Venus as a Boy wrote:
>
> When you are eating a cake you are defined as having schizophrenia by
> neuroscientists, because a not necessaraly excessive output of dopamine
> signalises a schizophrenic mind and dopamine gets released in higher
> amounts than normal when you are eating a cake!
### - imho some of these 'doctors' should be forced to take a dose of
their own damn medicine heh... medicine that does nada except damp-down
the over-emotional & mental reactions of their patient, who is obviously
having an intensely frightening experience and can't cope...
iow, it's a 'fear' reaction to unusual perceptions, and that person then
entering into a 'fight or flight' mode, that has them releasing all
kinds of chemicals into their system, NOT the other way around!
or the next thing they'll be saying is that cake 'causes'
schizophrenia??? :)))
not really understanding exactly what schizophrenia is, or why it
happens, all these doctors can thus do is to treat a person's
emotional/mental side-effects... ohhh, you've got too juch dopamine, i
see, well this drug we've got blocks it and then you will calm down, the
hallucinations will still be there but you'll stop freaking out etc etc,
blah blah blah...
i.e., 'anyone' who has an 'intense' experience (even eating some lovely
cake) will perforce have higher dopamine levels for a while afterwards,
ditto if they jump out of a plane and parachute down it's their own
body's automatic reaction, dopamine under normal circumstances working
with the pleasure/pain pathways and cake is full of lovely calories so
the body recognises this and signals for more by releasing dopamine and
the person gets an emotional reward, a system that also feeds back in
reverse to produce revulsion should you accidententally find yourself
eating a turd haha - YUK! - the body clearly letting you know it doesn't
want any more of THAT shit! lol :)))
that there must have been a time in our species' ancient history when we
completely depended on this feedback system just in order to survive, a
system which still remains intact within us today albeit now heavly
build upon/modified since to relate to more complex/subtle situations &
things... (wow i gots a new CD! dopamine flushhhh... feels cool)
and that accordingly, probably the 'first' thing these doctors should
offer their new schizophrenic patients is some form of 'cognitive
therapy' to alter their emotional/mental 'over-reactions' to having some
hallucinations... it being impossible to reason with someone who is
literally climbing the walls in sheer terror...
e.g., william burroughs (an american witer from the 50's beat
generation) who was a heroin junky nearly all his adult life (and lived
into his 80's) noted in his book 'Junky' that he had never ever met a
schizophrenic junky? and as such thought that heroin might indeed be a
cure 'for' schizophrenia...
the person will probably still have hallucinations etc, but they just
wont give a shit about it anymore lol, will likely even enjoy the
experience because heroin completely detaches a person from their
emotions etc, completely! this being the 'real' reason why people like
heroin because it instantly solves all their emotional/mental problems
allowing them to cope in a very unusual way by entering into a
completely 'desire-less' state of awareness! (instant nivana!)
the 'point' being, that a schizophrenic episode is kinda like taking a
large dose of magic mushrooms or lsd: for a while one sees, thinks &
feels way 'beyond' the usual range of perception! and ALL one can really
DO under such circumstances is to wait it out until it wears-off (the
idea behind taking mushrooms being to actually enjoy the experience
while it lasts...)
ditto then with any similar event, including schizophrenia...
that all the person has to DO is to calmly wait it out until it goes
away again, the calmer/more detached the person is about it is probably
the faster they will return to normal, getting into fight/flight mode
having the opposite effect, maybe even damaging/scarring them so best
avoided...
what schizophrenia actually 'is' is, i think, another subject altogether
and NOT what doctors have turned it all into...
the real question being: what potential 'use' has schizophrenia got in
the hands of someone who can not only 'accept' their condition, but who
can also learn to handle it as one expertly handles 'any' altered state
of awareness, knowing that it's only a temporary state that will soon
wear off...
thus in one sense it is tripping (whatever tripping actually is) without
the use of any drugs...
a natural high, that no one currently understands/accepts or knows what
to do with :)