Posts by Gerald Parker3

While everyone else was out living their lives, stormylynx23 was busy reading everything there was to read about schizophrenia.

Taylor Campbell4 said:Right, sure, and I'm just a saint myself—let's just say Douglas Long2 has one of the smallest egos in the room. 😬

But seriously—if I actually sat down and tried to find 😬 , the core truth in what you're saying, I think you're hitting on something real regarding people facing chronic struggles or debilitating illnesses.

No; I’m talking about the actual clinical definitions of psychosis.

My ego is basically at "just won a Nobel Prize" levels—it's what they call grandiosity.

silverfox6 said:Wait a second—does that mean Buddhists are all crazy then? Their whole philosophy is centered around eliminating the ego entirely! If we follow that logic, the ego is actually the root cause of every single problem we face.

True, but let's be real—the truly crazy ones are the people who have been living without an ego all along.

stormylynx23 said:Depersonalization

It’s this weird disorder where your whole sense of self just... shifts. It gets disturbing and honestly pretty overwhelming. During a depersonalization episode, you can suddenly lose any grip on who you actually are. You might feel like your limbs are totally different sizes, or like you’ve somehow exited your own body and are watching yourself from a distance. Sometimes it feels like being a machine—like you and everyone else are just robots going through the motions. Or you're moving through life like you're stuck in a dream, in a world that doesn't feel real anymore. You see similar, though much more intense, episodes popping up in schizophrenia F20. But there's a catch: the experience for someone with schizophrenia doesn't have that "it feels like" quality that people with depersonalization describe. For them, that detachment from the self isn't a feeling—it's just absolute reality.

Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_disorders

I’ve come to realize that people losing their grip don't really have an ego—or rather, it's so incredibly small that once the pressure hits, it just snaps. Honestly, having a robust, well-preserved ego is pretty much what keeps you sane.